Performances Quotes · Page 8

Every performance is completely its own thing.

— Bradley Cooper

Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

— John Dryden

Life has no rehearsals, only performances.

— Nateman

I'm capable of extracting performances from my actors.

— Satish Kaushik

It's not a performance to impress the Puritans

— Martin Tyler

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

— Taylor Hackford

I am trying hard to better my performances every match.

— Suresh Raina

Quality performance starts with a positive attitude.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

Your name never stands for anything, only performances do.

— P. R. Sreejesh

High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.

— Andy Hargreaves

If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that's important.

— Juno Temple

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

— Amanda Palmer

I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

— Gareth Gates

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

— Shirley Booth

Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics.

— Suzanne Yoculan

I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

— Gary Wright

Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good…

— Robert K. Greenleaf

Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing…

— Stephen Covey

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become…

— Arthur Fogel

It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to…

— Amy Poehler

Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters.

— Kamala Harris

I've been in a poor physical shape many times in my career and I've had some of my best results. My best…

— Kelly Slater

We're (also) looking for a good people person who is able to motivate others and get strong performances out of people.

— Kenneth Lay

I was doing experimental noise-based music and I learned a number of things about performance. I was playing small shows - sometimes…

— Erika M. Anderson

There is so much more information about the scientific world than there was a generation ago that we have all increased our…

— Ellen Goodman

When I commit to a role, I always tell myself that role is king. That's the Bible. If I start to judge…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out…

— Jennifer Lopez

My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a…

— Billy Crudup

I don't get a rush from anything. I did music as hard as I could. Acting for me at least, is a…

— Henry Rollins

I love Ron Howard, he's a wonderful director, incredibly prepared. But I have to criticize my performance in that movie. It all…

— Glenn Close

To act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is…

— Lily Tomlin

Miss Havisham is an important feminine literary figure in the tradition of Antigone (though it's significant that Antigone is fighting to bury…

— Laura Mullen

Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may…

— Anonymous

I honestly believe, and I've said it many times, that the universal stems from the specific and I can't walk around with…

— Denzel Washington

I'm popular in the United States and I'm popular in England. England is just more concentrated. The people are closer together. Venues…

— Jack Jones

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live…

— Martha Graham

The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part…

— Maurice Hayes

When you’re working with Army and Marine Corps units, you immediately notice a difference. The Army is pretty tough, but their performance…

— Chris Kyle

As an actor, if you step to the side and you look at [Thornton's performance] technically, and you try to imagine doing…

— Edward Norton