Performances Quotes

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.

I really love watching the 70s live performance TV series "The Midnight Special" and "The Old Grey Whistle Test". Those are the best performances you've ever seen, and they sound incredible.

A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.

The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve.

Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.

In all we do we must cultivate faith. Increased faith is the touchstone to improved church performance.

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.

Preferences are bad solutions to performance problems.

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

Whenever I do a performance I always hope it is the best day of my life. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.

A divinely expressed performance in any genre sets me completely on fire.

Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else.

You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

My taste is very eclectic. I love musicals, but I also love the classics. I've seen some fantastic productions. I was in a musical for 600 performances in Australia that I first saw in New York.

The one aspect I do love about digital is I love to push performance and I love to roll and roll and keep doing takes in a single performance.

Better moods = better performance.

I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.

Parenthood has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.

On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

For me, when you're casting known talent, you're not just casting their performances. You're casting the public's relationship with them, their public images to a degree.

I'm one of these people who would rather show you than tell you through the performance.

The performances in the future would be like an audience wired to somebody who was sort of instigating, and then moment-to-moment creation would be transmuted individually.

I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully.

Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.

You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.

A novel is a performance you have to plan.

We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances.

One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there.

Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games

I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give.

Whenever I have a bad performance, I look at it as a learning experience.

Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during 'The Shining.' It's like one of the best performances ever. Maybe he shouldn't have gone that far, but I love that movie.

One thing I'm most proud of, in my movies, is that I think the performances are super-strong, but that's not all me. I think part of it is casting appropriately.

No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.

My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.

Teaching is performance art.

I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celebrity, but at the end of the day I want to empower my audience and say, 'Hey, I am just like you.

As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.

I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance.

I mean, there's definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. But at the same time, it's just performing. No matter what, it's performing.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

If we had an audience to play to, the performance would have gotten too big. Sizing our performances to the camera was an important journey for me at least.

The performances make you want to get back out there and try something new and challenge yourself.