Performances Quotes

If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.

There is no nobler deed than the performance of one's duty.

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

The subtle performances of the leads, the remarkable Irrfan Khan and the engaging Nimrat Kaur, make 'The Lunchbox' a pleasure to watch.

Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many other wonderful organizations.

Sam [Mendes] said he took advantage of the fact that Kate and I were so close for many years. He knew it was something he could harness in our performances, and we knew that too.

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.

I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room.

To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will only produce miserable, abortive performances.

Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.

Ive always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.

I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.

performance is an act of faith.

I like not to know, unless it's something that I need to know, specifically, for how I color a performance.

I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.

Drugs won't enhance your performance.

[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".

I sort of pride myself in my dissatisfaction with my work. I've always been concerned with buying the hype, and having that make your performances suffer.

My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the circus, so I followed her footsteps.

When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.

I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.

Remember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.

The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.

Learning and performance will become one and the same thing. Everything you say about learning will be about performance. People will get the point that learning is everything.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

Oh that thou hadst like others been all words, And no performance.

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.

I often really like to play with documenting my performances cinematically. Cinematic documentation is much more interesting than the performance itself.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.

History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.

Cricket is a team game where individuals inspire each other to achieve performances which surpass what might otherwise be beyond them.

I heard some interesting things about your performance up here." "I hear interesting things about your 'performance' all the time Doug, but you don't hear me making jokes about it.

The press concentrates on a divorce an actor's going through and they ignore the good performances he gives, or the causes that he works for.

If we observe the performance of only those funds that remain active, we will tend to find that the average performance of the surviving funds exceeds that of the market.

An amazing performance is always a reflection of awesome amounts of practice.

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

I like the energy of live performance.

One cannot help but be impressed by this music. The musicianship is top-notch, the performances unpredictable and full of surprises, and Eric Starr's writing is consistently inventive.

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.

A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.

Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.