Performances Quotes · Page 92

There is something that you have that no one else ever had ... When you watch Kirk's [Douglas] performance in anything, in…

— Steven Spielberg

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in…

— Anton Seidl

I think the beauty of documentary work is that it's a mystery - you never know where it's going to lead you.…

— Gail Levin

In order to move our self image higher on the spectrum of performance, we must specifically attack our self-talking and our self-thinking?…

— Hyrum W. Smith

Clint Eastwood enables and allows things to happen. You walk on some sets and it's like walking into an emergency room. It's…

— Matt Damon

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is…

— Roland Barthes

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

— Ethel Merman

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

It's interesting how you can blur the line between acting and living and learn from your performances. I'm just trying to keep…

— Kristen Stewart

As opposed to a movie [Real Steel] where everything feels fantastical, it was really important to me, and I recognise it's not…

— Shawn Anthony Levy

Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.

— David Platt

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or…

— Terry Pratchett

Working in television it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not…

— Christina Ricci

God's primary concerns have to do with your well-being, not your performance.

— Vinita Hampton Wright

The intimate conversations have its moments, because you have to sell the characters, because there is so much going on. It's so…

— Eleanor Tomlinson

I heard some interesting things about your performance up here." "I hear interesting things about your 'performance' all the time Doug, but…

— Richelle Mead

I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few…

— Burton Malkiel

Stanley Kubrick was very selective when he went into a close-up. Every director has his taste in a performance, but Stanley would…

— Tom Cruise

It was so much fun to have my very first TV (performance) be the holy grail of comedy, in my opinion. I…

— Cheyenne Jackson

He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for…

— Franz Beckenbauer

I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were…

— Trevor Nunn

Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the…

— Steven Kotler

Having an identity at work separate from an identity at home means that the work role can help absorb some of the…

— Faye J Crosby

I like to think in camera, but at the last minute the most important thing is that there is something happening between…

— Audrey Tautou

I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera,…

— Lily Tomlin