Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and… — Cat Osterman Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I don't want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can't. It's subconscious. Like sexual performance. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
The part that I felt most comfortable with going in was just working with actors and trying to make them feel comfortable… — Jennifer Westfeldt Copy Share Image
Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive. — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen is that the effect that they create behind you is bigger than the performance you're putting… — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Copy Share Image
My dear sisters, do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
It is not enough for us to know what is right and to believe it is good. We must be willing to… — Dean L. Larsen Copy Share Image
If you mess up the tiniest little thing in the Beethoven concerto, or the phrasing isn't just exactly perfectly executed, Beethoven brings… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at… — Stefano Langone Copy Share Image
I have never stopped performing live.I've been blessed with the talent to sing and play the piano so I can fit into… — Oleta Adams Copy Share Image
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
I've lived in New York all my life, and we went to the Mormon Pageant each year in upstate New York. It… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Sometimes the ensemble 'Eighth Blackbird' will have performances and invite me to be a featured soloist. I think that is what they… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
As lovely as people are to me about my performance, I'm still a huge critic. I like very little of what I… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
It is tragic that we have lost one of our nation's finest actors in the prime of his life. Heath Ledger's diverse… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes,… — Michelle Chamuel Copy Share Image
Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by. — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt. — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort. — Elgin Baylor Copy Share Image
I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not. — Aidan Turner Copy Share Image
Animal abusers are not the only culprits - the consumers are the biggest abusers! As long as buyers, users, attendees at animal… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI,… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor; my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
![“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 a part like a gay man for quite a long time. Until it turned out that I indeed got married to Tonks. I changed my whole performance after that. Just saw it as a…” quote by David Thewlis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/95e/david-thewlis-5383_changed_alfonso-cuar-n-in-the-rehearsals-without_750099.jpg)
