Performances Quotes · Page 25

I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.

— John Eaton

I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.

— Annie Ilonzeh

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

— Bob Gunton

“If life is a cabaret, I must be in-between performances.”

— Gary Michael Silver

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

— Roland Joffe

I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

— Gary Wright

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

— Johnny Carson

The only way to maximize potential for performance is to be calm in the mind.

— Brian Sipe

Don't try to be just like some other singer hitting it big - find your own style and be honest in your…

— Tony Bennett

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary…

— Milton Babbitt

Occasionally there are parents who say, "I brought my child so he or she could learn what the career of a writer…

— Daniel Handler

However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet…

— Pope Pius XI

Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You want to be appreciated for all your work as opposed to one performance, but I'll always be 'that bloke from 'Lock,…

— Nick Moran

Walk down Forest Ave to Joey's Pizza like we used to do after performances, which doesn't exist anymore. We had a sense…

— Jon Gordon

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible…

— Stanley Kubrick

That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd…

— Arthur Golden

I'm moved by us, our quirks and mistakes. I find inspiration in everything from a piece of art to the hem of…

— Idara Victor

When watching movies, I was always inspired by the performances of the cast. Of course, the story and the direction and all…

— Rinko Kikuchi

There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make…

— Kathryn Bigelow

All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable…

— Warren Buffett

Emotion is more than just anger. When I am performing, I need emotion, but I need control, too. Emotion drives the best…

— Mike Tyson

I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen…

— Vincent Kartheiser

A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument.

— Pauline Oliveros

What I want is that I can match my performances during training so I can be satisfied with myself.

— Liu Xiang

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

— Evan Parker

If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.

— John Templeton

If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that's important.

— Juno Temple

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

— Amanda Palmer

I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

— Gareth Gates

Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics.

— Suzanne Yoculan

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

— Shirley Booth

Confidence is the bridge connecting expectations and performance, investment and results.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.

— Maureen O'Hara

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.

— Claudio Arrau

If my films do well or not, I am glad that the audiences appreciate my performance.

— Hrithik Roshan

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

— Roberta Flack

Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy

— Albert Bandura