Performances Quotes · Page 45

God gets the easiest performance reviews.

— Daryl Gregory

Every performance is different. There are so many factors involved... the people I've met that day, the weather, the city I'm in,…

— Dia Frampton

Comics, as good as they might be, they didn't know much about performance. There aren't too many comics you could watch for…

— Andrew Dice Clay

In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55…

— Daniel Yergin

The beauty of shooting on something that's not in front of an audience is that you can just cut out the times…

— Ken Marino

I'm going with Charlotte Rampling. In 45 Years [movie], you start out feeling so bad for her, and then it kind of…

— Bun B

no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

I've always looked up to Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey for their outstanding vocal performances. I've always been inspired by them.

— Jessica Mauboy

In a sense, I like to think of the live performance as something different than the record, not necessarily looking to exactly…

— Zooey Deschanel

You must create the character's internal life. What do I mean by internal life? I mean the thoughts, feelings, memories, and inner…

— Larry Moss

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

A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to…

— Giovanni Ribisi

Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on…

— Andy Serkis

I was bored to death and thinking more about the minibar and the after-show party than the performance.

— Volker Bertelmann

I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction…

— Barry Bonds

You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

— Marisa Tomei

When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are…

— George Carlin

I met the [Frank] Sinatra family for a [performance] I did for his hundredth birthday and one of the first things Sinatra's…

— Michael Buble

I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.

— John Tesh

Good acting is consistency of performance.

— Jim Dale

It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital…

— Geddy Lee

And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I think in running, to be honest, that even though athletes are very dedicated and are willing to train and do whatever…

— Alberto Salazar

This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee.…

— Dorothy Parker

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

— Adam Lambert