Performances Quotes · Page 27

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

— David Byrne

I think one of the reasons [Nikolai] Medtner hasn't had a chance is that his music needs very, very committed performances. If…

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various…

— Eve Ensler

I'm not impressed by your performance.

— Georges St-Pierre

Realizing that my surroundings were going to be built around me, the way that I performed, we helped the directors through the…

— Dennis Haysbert

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

I'm a stage actor, and we never get to see our performances.

— Clarke Peters

The next actor I meet that uses the term 'courageous' to describe another actor's performance is getting punched in the face.

— Dov Davidoff

Alfonso Cuarón, in the rehearsals, without J.K. Rowling's knowledge, told me that [my character] was, in fact, gay. So I'd been playing…

— David Thewlis

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

— Leonard Slatkin

The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress,…

— Gelsey Kirkland

I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.

— Jack Nicholson

You don't know being a performer what kind of performance you're going to give. You know you can give a certain quality…

— Elton John

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us…

— Theodore Roosevelt

When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and…

— Sandra Bullock

I always try to take from past performances. You never try to get too high or too low. Just play every game,…

— Derek Jeter

The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the…

— Jane Austen

I think that if you grow up trying to be the best then you have to be competitive because the more you…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

You do sometimes watch performances and just think, 'I may as well give up. I won't reach that. I may as well…

— Tom Mison

My life is a performance for which I was never given any chance to rehearse.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it…

— Stephen King

It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can…

— Miles Davis

There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I…

— Frank Sinatra

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

— Igor Levit

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the…

— John Harvey-Jones