Performances Quotes · Page 29

I tend to be hypercritical of my performances. That's why I hate watching them with people I know.

— Jill Flint

Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about.

— Darryl Pinckney

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

— Bruce Lee

We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be overcome with the ultimate goal often interferes with performance.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I just want the audience to see that the performances are a real representation of myself.

— Taeyang

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

— Cate Blanchett

I didnt develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

— Gary Wright

For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those…

— Johnny Depp

Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.

— Thomas Campion

As an actress, I'm constantly watching different shows and films and am always gathering information and inspiration for characters and techniques to…

— Rachel G. Fox

I do love old horror, everytime I watch Rosemary's Baby the performances just get richer and richer and more multi-layered, and I…

— Robert Englund

Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel.

— Benedict of Nursia

One cannot help but be impressed by this music. The musicianship is top-notch, the performances unpredictable and full of surprises, and Eric…

— Scott Yanow

Life responds to deserve and not to need. It doesn't say,"If you need,you will reap." It says,"If you plant you will reap."The…

— Jim Rohn

I really love watching the 70s live performance TV series "The Midnight Special" and "The Old Grey Whistle Test". Those are the…

— Feist

When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Actors are like kids, they need to play a little bit. And that's the nature of their job, they need to shake…

— David Ayer

The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic…

— Avril Lavigne

Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons:…

— Joan Jett

'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in…

— Mark Doty

Drue [Langlois] and I started making music together before we started the Art Lodge, so I guess musical collaboration came first. The…

— Michael Dumontier

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at…

— Andy Serkis

I don't care what the press is about a person that I'm working with. I care about how they come to work…

— Sophia Bush

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

— Dorothy Parker

The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.

— John Eccles

To do well at a new competition, you need a lot of good performances.

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig

— Stephen Greenblatt

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.

— Joan Didion

I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety.

— Julia Stiles

I love performances that move me, like Waheeda Rehman in any of her roles.

— Hazel Keech

I don't think I will ever give up doing live performances.

— Riya Sen

I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.

— Jane Byrne

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.

— Ian Mckellen

All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.

— Theaster Gates

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

— Ashleigh Brilliant

If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing.

— Michael Jordan

Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time.

— Brian Tracy

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

— Stephen Dorff