Performances Quotes · Page 27

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.

— David Cassidy

I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.

— Walter Inglis Anderson

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

— Samuel Johnson

Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.

— George W. Crane

Every performance is different, but I try to approach them in the same way and give it my all.

— McCoy Tyner

The important thing is to dare to dream big, then take action to make it come true.

— Joe Girard

Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance.

— Bill Toomey

But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

— Warren Zevon

There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or…

— Nicolas Cage

In what may as well be starkly labelled smug satisfaction, an amazing 94% [of college instructors] rate themselves as above average teachers,…

— K. Patricia Cross

We can't make a giant sprawling movie. We're going to make a small movie. And what we got is what I could…

— Ti West

The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play…

— Jason Gann

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well,…

— Bob Balaban

I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that…

— Timothy Bottoms

We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take…

— Ben Harper

I get extremely nervous before performances. I pray and try to look at it as, 'I'll go out there and have fun,'…

— Tessanne Chin

Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the…

— Nicolas Chamfort

To put it in gentleman's terms if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you…

— Ian Holloway

[the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience…

— Anton Webern

Humor is more so. For this, there's definitely moments that I think, "I know this part is really funny and I want…

— Ti West

The reason everybody is so amazed and enamored with me right now is because I have worked every angle, I have worked…

— Leslie Jones

I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not…

— Anne Hathaway

Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

You can sit behind your computer and listen to music via a program or from the Internet and also watch performances on…

— Steve Mahoney

I have been giving live performances since childhood, and I continue to do so professionally.

— Roop Durgapal

The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.

— Phil Jackson

If he [Donald Trump]can boost Mitt Romney's performance five points among white folks, he could have a shot.

— Chris Hayes

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

— Anna Friel

So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English

— Sophie Marceau

Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.

— Audrey Meadows

After rehearsals or a performance, you're wired and tired and it takes a while to calm down.

— Katharine Ross

The sign of a great player is not how much he scores, but how much he lifts his teammates performance

— Red Holzman

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

— D.T. Suzuki

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

— Harry Houdini

A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team.

— John Katzenbach

In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.

— Philip Sidney

Enjoying life is far superior to being graded on your performance in life.

— Anonymous

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

— Patrice Motsepe

The boys performance was so good that I've run out of expletives to describe it.

— Micky Mellon

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

— John Lanchester