Performance Quotes

1516 quotes by 1228 authors

It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line… — Richard McCabe
I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match… — David Morse
When you're buying real growth and want real performance, you buy excellent management and good products and you diversify across industry sectors. — Robert Morse
The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and… — Larry Dixon
It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level. — Mark Roberts
He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because… — Brandon Routh
What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge... unless the penalty is an absolute… — Michael Wilbon
I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen. — Donald Wolfit
No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance. — Fred Schneider
Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for… — David Thewlis
And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is… — Michael Tilson Thomas
There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience… — David Schwimmer
Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance. — Michael Tippett
I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's… — Michael Welch
It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well,… — Michael Welch
Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse. — Wayne Rogers
When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I… — Kiefer Sutherland
The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me… — Kevin Spacey
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away. — Harold S Geneen

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