Performances Quotes · Page 36

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

— Kathleen Hanna

Procrastination is the beginning of poor performance.

— Ron Kaufman

Funding for faith-based charities should] be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our…

— Eugene Rivers

It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are…

— Philip Auslander

I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something…

— Yani Tseng

I've seen a lot of movies that were great and scary, but not particularly fancy in their filmmaking or performance. And they're…

— Fede Alvarez

James Gandolfini was a genius. Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of…

— David Chase

I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance

— Iris van Herpen

When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every…

— Ian Mckellen

As an actor, that's the most important thing. You want to be able to let go and not hold onto anything, so…

— James Wolk

The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity…

— Peter Drucker

It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your…

— James A. Baldwin

The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

— Benjamin Zander

Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through…

— Lee Hall

You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance.

— Alexander Siddig

Yul Brynner's performance in "The King and I," . . . can no longer be regarded as a feat of acting or…

— Frank Rich

From a performance standpoint, it just gives [actors] so much - I had such a great cast [ in Valley of Violence]…

— Ti West

For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance…

— Jean Giono

My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to…

— Thomas Jefferson

When product performance outstrips the ability of customers to use that performance in an industry, the competitive game changes. Under those circumstances…

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Dorothy Parker

Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a…

— Dalai Lama

My job is to try and present the most fully-rounded character that I can, and bring a performance that people believe in.

— Dominic Monaghan

I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape…

— Albert Brooks