quotes about Performances
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The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.
-- A. O. Scott -
I've always seemed to have my best performances when I'm under the most pressure.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.
-- Adam Lambert -
Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
-- Adam McKay -
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
-- Agnes Denes -
Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.
-- Alarmel Valli -
It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.
-- Alice EnglertSource : "Reel Steel: Alice Englert" by Nojan Aminosharei, www.elle.com. January 7, 2013.
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I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.
-- Anderson Cooper -
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A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.
-- Andrew S. TanenbaumSource : Usenet message to Linus Torvalds, January 30, 1992.
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My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.
-- Andy Serkis -
I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.
-- Anna FrielSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.
-- Annie IlonzehSource : "Annie Ilonzeh Doesn’t See Color But Is Happy To Be Charlie’s First Black Angel" by Rebecca Carroll, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2011.
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I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.
-- Arthur DarvillSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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My performances have finally caught up with my ego.
-- Ato Boldon -
The best kind of performance review is no performance review
-- Aubrey Daniels -
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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
-- Bela Lugosi -
A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
-- Bela Lugosi -
Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.
-- Betty Buckley -
You lose with potential. You win with performance.
-- Bill Parcells -
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Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.
-- Bill Rodgers -
Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.
-- Billy WestSource : Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2005.
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I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.
-- Bob Gibson -
I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.
-- Bob GuntonSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.
-- Brenda Blethyn -
...writing is not a performance but a generosity.
-- Brenda Ueland -
If the web can be evolved to include the missing APIs and have better performance, [developers] won't need to go beyond the web.
-- Brendan Eich -
Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.
-- Brian Tracy -
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Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control
-- Brian Tracy -
The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
-- Brian Tracy -
How much we like ourselves governs our performance.
-- Brian Tracy -
Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation
-- Brian Tracy -
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Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.
-- Bruce Jenner -
I couldn't worry about whether I`m gonna make it onstage or not. You can't. You just gotta do it. And if you do, you do, and if you don't, you don't, and then something else happens. That's the point of the live performance.
-- Bruce Springsteen -
My best performances were when I was 30 years old, and I was a vegan.
-- Carl Lewis -
Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.
-- Carolina KluftSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.
-- Charles RosenSource : Charles Rosen (2002). “Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist”, p.195, Simon and Schuster
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Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me.
-- Christian SlaterSource : "Christian Slater: Clean Slater". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. July 1, 1993.
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I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.
-- Christopher Eccleston -
I'm a stage actor, and we never get to see our performances.
-- Clarke PetersSource : "Is this it?". Interview with Adrian Lobb, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2009.
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I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.
-- Claudio Arrau -
When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.
-- Cullen Hightower -
An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance.
-- Curt Gowdy -
You just have to take control of your own performance.
-- Damian LewisSource : "'Homeland' Damian Lewis, David Harewood Q&A". Interview With Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. February 13, 2012.
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If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.
-- Dan Poynter -
Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.
-- David Cassidy -
An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance
-- David Lee Roth -
Physicality is the basis of performance.
-- David PetersenSource : David Petersen (2007). “The Well-Tempered Body: Expressive Movement for Actors, Improvisers, and Performance Artists”, p.9, David Petersen
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Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.
-- David Platt -
Before every performance I feel nervous.
-- Diego BonetaSource : "Diego Boneta Dishes On His New Movie, Rock of Ages". Interview with Ellen Collis, www.seventeen.com. January 11, 2012.
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I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.
-- Dixie Lee Ray -
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You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.
-- Don King -
The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.
-- Edwin MuirSource : 1954 An Autobiography, ch.1.
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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
People tend to remember my performances, not me.
-- Ellen Barkin -
I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.
-- Eric Bana -
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.
-- Eric Burdon -
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Dance every performance as if it were your last.
-- Erik Bruhn -
I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
-- Ethel Merman -
If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.
-- Evan Parker -
I didnt develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
-- Gary Wright -
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Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve...
-- Gene Lees -
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- George W. Crane -
Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.
-- Gloria Stuart -
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
-- Hank Azaria -
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
-- Harold Geneen -
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
-- Harold Geneen -
Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.
-- Harold Stephen Black -
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Preferences are bad solutions to performance problems.
-- Havoc Pennington -
All you owe the public is a good performance.
-- Humphrey BogartSource : Humphrey Bogart's remarks to Frank Sinatra, as quoted in "The New York Times", May 17, 1994.
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You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.
-- Ioan Gruffudd -
I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance
-- Iris van Herpen -
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
-- J. J. Abrams -
Greatness is in the preparation, not in the performance.
-- Jack Hyles -
It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.
-- Jackie Stewart -
I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
-- James Dean -
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I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.
-- Janet McTeerSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.
-- Javier Bardem -
When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket
-- Jens Lehmann -
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I'm one of these people who would rather show you than tell you through the performance.
-- Jeremy Piven -
Good acting is consistency of performance.
-- Jim DaleSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.
-- Joan Didion -
Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.
-- Joe DempsieSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
-- John Dryden -
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
-- John Ousterhout -
If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.
-- John Templeton -
Whenever I have a bad performance, I look at it as a learning experience.
-- Johnny Damon -
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Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.
-- Jonathan DemmeSource : "Jonathan Demme On Future Projects ‘Old Fires,’ ‘Zeitoun’ And ‘This House We Live In’" by Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. December 29, 2012.
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I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.
-- Jonny Lee MillerSource : "The Miller's tale". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2004.
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We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.
-- Joseph JarmanSource : Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.
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No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.
-- Joshua Bell -
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God is more concerned about your heart than your performance. If your heart is right, your performance will eventually catch up.
-- Joyce Meyer -
Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance.
-- Judah Smith -
I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.
-- Kalan SherrardSource : "'Hyper subtle sexual ego'". Interview with Peter Nowogrodzki, logger.believermag.com. June 4, 2014.
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Teaching is performance art.
-- Kate ClintonSource : Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.35, Bywater Books
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