The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills. — Maureen O'Hara Copy Share Image
If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that's important. — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week. — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics. — Suzanne Yoculan Copy Share Image
Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance. — Shirley Booth Copy Share Image
Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie. — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those… — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the… — Neon Hitch Copy Share Image
This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
No matter what the character is, I just say to myself 'If I, Melissa George, was in that situation, how would I… — Melissa George Copy Share Image
My grandmother took me to a lot of theater. I was exposed to performance quite a bit - everything from Broadway to… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
I went to a performance-art high school, and a teacher there was signing me up for open-mic nights at the comedy club.… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
In competitive archery, risk assessment has minimal bearing on quality of performance, since the archer has so little choice over shot selection.… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
My favorite term for a new kind of performance is "security theater." In this genre, we watch as ritualized inspections and patdowns… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
You have as great an opportunity for satisfaction in the performance of your duty as I do in mine. The progress of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
All of us are prone to excuse our own mediocre performance. We blame our misfortunes, our disfigurements, our so-called handicaps. Victims of… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The future success of the Marine Corps depends on two factors: first, an efficient performance of all duties to which its officers… — John A. Lejeune Copy Share Image
I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I've never really felt like a journalist. I've felt like a writer and a diarist. I have made myself vulnerable in my… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts,… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or… — John Cage Copy Share Image
I think the beauty of documentary work is that it's a mystery - you never know where it's going to lead you.… — Gail Levin Copy Share Image
I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems.… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
The thing that you learn in directing is that when you're on the floor, no matter how complex the shooting is...you have… — Irvin Kershner Copy Share Image
I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances. — Gary Wright Copy Share Image
The only way to maximize potential for performance is to be calm in the mind. — Brian Sipe Copy Share Image
What I want is that I can match my performances during training so I can be satisfied with myself. — Liu Xiang Copy Share Image
If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances. — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd. — John Templeton Copy Share Image
I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen. — Annie Ilonzeh Copy Share Image
