Performances Quotes

35mm film isn't ticking away so it's subconscious - performances are allowed to breathe in a much more real way I think.

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

Bridal is very much a performance - it is the one grand event in every woman's life.

I learned that I was either crazy in love with you, or putting on the best performance of my life.' -Nora (PG 263)

I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.

I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.

The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.

A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.

Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.

Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.

My best performances were when I was 30 years old, and I was a vegan.

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you!

You can't really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though.

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.

I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.

Nothing has more words and performance than rap music.

I'm a stage actor, and we never get to see our performances.

This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. And they say Obama's not black enough!

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my mind is to perform.

The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.

I let the performance speak for itself.

God gets the easiest performance reviews.

I've realized that I can do performances.

Winners believe in their worth in advance of their performance.

You'll see some great performances [in Fences]. And I'm not just saying that because I directed it either! You'll see!

I always try to take from past performances. You never try to get too high or too low. Just play every game, just treat every game like it's the same.

Before every performance I feel nervous.

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

[The Surf Lodge performance] is sort of like an annual thing.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.

I've always enjoyed and loved playing live. I relish and cherish it more than anything else because you never know what the performance is going to be.

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.

I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.

I have a life beyond performance. I love it, and it probably is the better part of my life, but I do have another life.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.