Performance Quotes

1516 quotes by 1228 authors

Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn't mean you have to attend the performance. — Cheryl Richardson
When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling! — Kailash Kher
In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes. — Bruce Lee
Focus on performance. Outcome is going to happen. No stress about that. Focus on performance. — Dustin Poirier
Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That's… — David Wenham
It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the… — Jamie Dornan
I'd like to think my performance is today. I never try to - it's so, as you know, watching me, I have a beginning, middle… — Don Rickles
I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art. — Jack Nicholson
It's very flattering to be remembered as a Bond girl with brains and not just for looking good in a bikini. I was a fan… — Eva Green
I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural… — Sean Astin
Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance. — Kim Stanley
Colin Morgan gives a stunning performance in Parked; he plays Merlin in the BBC TV show and he says the two characters are like night… — Colm Meaney
It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have… — Rosalind Russell
I think that if an audience is truly appreciative of a performance, they will show it. Sometimes though, there are little differences, and there are… — Lea Salonga
For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in… — Ron Moody
Positive reinforcement generates more behavior than is minimally required. We call this discretionary effort, and its presence in the workplace is the only way an… — Aubrey Daniels
Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting -… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded for what it… — Peter Drucker
It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment, that is, envying… — Peter Kreeft

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