Performances Quotes · Page 17

Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.

— Anonymous

My relationship with shoes has always been linked to shoes, women, women in their shoes and performance.

— Christian Louboutin

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

— Meghan O'Rourke

Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.

— Holger Czukay

Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.

— Gloria Stuart

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

— Tom Flores

I think it's more important to try and make a good film than give a good performance.

— Paul Dano

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

— Mark Twain

My taste is very eclectic. I love musicals, but I also love the classics. I've seen some fantastic productions. I was in…

— Jacki Weaver

For me, some of the happiest moments on a live-action film are the awkward moments. One actor says something to another actor.…

— Gore Verbinski

The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

— Anonymous

Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability…

— Daniel Goleman

You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or…

— Ian Somerhalder

I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.

— Alannah Myles

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is a spiritual commerce with the Creator of heaven…

— Charles Spurgeon

My favorite term for a new kind of performance is "security theater." In this genre, we watch as ritualized inspections and patdowns…

— David Byrne

In competitive archery, risk assessment has minimal bearing on quality of performance, since the archer has so little choice over shot selection.…

— Ernest Sosa

My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me…

— Jeff Dunham

In this crazy mirror of terror and art a pseudo-quotation made up of obscure Shakespeareanisms (Chapter Three) somehow produces, despite its lack…

— Vladimir Nabokov

You need someone who has a really good way of enabling trust in the cast and crew, or the cast particularly, to…

— Nicholas Sparks

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. The regard…

— Samuel Johnson

My mind is in so many different places while we're shooting. Part of it is watching the performance, part of it is…

— Cary Fukunaga

On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figure than…

— Leonard Slatkin

Back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade-that's all that we knew. But now in…

— Bo Jackson

David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He…

— Edward Norton

I sustained an injury by singing with the flu during the second performance of Andrea Chenier in Buenos Aires. I was very…

— Ben Heppner

In the beginning my energy and passion for acting came from an almost punk rock need to express a lot of anger…

— Nicolas Cage

You know, you're doing the same show every day, and your inspiration, you have to look no further than the fact that…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Not everyone in an organization is in a position to accumulate power through competent performance because most people are just carrying out…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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

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

Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me.

— Christian Slater

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

— Lasse Hallstrom

I love live performance, but I am excited to try my hand at whatever comes my way.

— Michael Stahl-David

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

— Thia Megia

Without the concentration of the mind and the will, performance would not result.

— Roger Bannister

The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people.

— Ethel Wilson

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

— Raymond Chandler

Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.

— Michael Porter