Performances Quotes

I'm attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I'm thrilled. I like performances where you don't know what's coming, moment to moment.

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.

Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don't work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon.

The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

All promise outruns performance.

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.

No, I'm not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you'd get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work.

I was a big "Blue Valentine" fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.

A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.

Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

The script and the performances and the style all clicked.

Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a grounded skylark.

You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.

Improve your performance by improving your attitude.

I'm a huge fan of the director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and his work, and I knew he was going to be an amazing actor's director, based on the performances that I saw in his movies.

I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.

High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.

I can assure you, nothing in my performance will be deflated

We're (also) looking for a good people person who is able to motivate others and get strong performances out of people.

We've always had a dark atmosphere to our performances, so it sort of developed along those ways.

Buildings are forms of performances.

When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.

To be overcome with the ultimate goal often interferes with performance.

I always see things that I can improve. But frankly with Stripes, I'm surprised at how effective it is, even today, and how vibrant that movie is and how juicy the performances all are.

Tramps Like Us is The GREATEST Bruce Springsteen Tribute Band In The LAND! I've witnessed them on several occasions and their performances are SECOND TO NONE !

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.