Quotes About Performances

#1. No matter how many great performances or exciting visuals we put together for the movie, we found that it was all somewhat two dimensional until we added the emotional heart of Howard Shore's music. Then, and only then, did the film come to life.

Peter Jackson

#2. I'm always more comfortable and in a good place when I'm with friends because I know they trust me. I'm able to get great performances from people who trust me.

Lee Daniels

#3. I want to be known for my performances and doing my craft well, not for funny stuff I post on Twitter or whatever.

Billy Magnussen

#4. The best way to win was to not need to win. The best performances are accomplished when you are relaxed and free of doubt.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#5. The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That's what I enjoy now.

Virat Kohli

#6. The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

Anton Seidl

#7. For me, when you're casting known talent, you're not just casting their performances. You're casting the public's relationship with them, their public images to a degree.

Jen McGowan

#8. All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.

David Friedman

#10. At least in my performances, the audience has become so diverse in a way that I don't think ballet has ever experienced.

Misty Copeland

#11. When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

Joel Siegel

#12. It's a holistic process for me during a show. I'm always focusing on the technical aspects of my voice. I try to make my voice do what I want. One big thing I do to improve on each show is to listen back to performances on CD while on tour.

Matisyahu

#13. While I used to make my living principally as a record producer, as time went on, I had to depend more and more on my live performances because of the evolution of the record industry, which has de-emphasized what made it possible to make a living.

Todd Rundgren

#14. Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.

James Taylor

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

Gary Wright

#16. If I walk up to a can of Red Bull, I'm thinking about Formula One; I'm thinking about incredible athletic performances. And it helps me choose that can over something else to either side of it.

Nick Woodman

#17. America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

Meryl Streep

#18. Briggsy's performances down the years have been pure magic. If they could bottle his ability and sell if at drama schools they'd make a fortune.

Lynne Perrie

#19. I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

Mel Brooks

#20. If you swap it about, do television, theatre, film, you can go on surprising yourself. The problem is you get employed to do something you've already done. They want something from that sheep pen of performances they've seen you do.

Kenneth Cranham

#21. High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.

John Eliot

#22. After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

Graham Nash

#23. I don't spend a lot of time watching my performances after the fact. I suck at playing video games, but I'm a fan of the creativity, the brilliance, and the possibility of the industry.

Jennifer Hale

#24. We were all actors, just as you are all actors now. But our audience wasn't as large as yours. And our performances, like those on a stage, were fleeting, uncaptured.

David Levithan

#25. I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

Manu Bennett

#26. I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being.

Steve Coogan

#27. I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.

Dallas Roberts

#28. You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

Harvey Fierstein

#29. Working in network news is not a solitary pursuit; it is the ultimate 'team sport,' in which success is derived from the collective performances of remarkable people united in purpose and dedication.

Steve Capus

#30. Another study notes about Bali: "Babies are encouraged to acquire quickly the capacity to sleep under any circumstances, including situations of high stimulation, musical performances, and other noisy observances which reflect their more complete integration into adult social activities." As

Sebastian Junger

#31. There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false.

Nicolas Cage

#32. Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

Albert Bandura

#33. It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.

T. J. Miller

#34. If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy. If you're trying to have a normal conversation, you've got to have a normal conversation. If you're trying to make them sad, you've got to make them sad. I think that's how you get real performances out of people.

Jonah Hill

#35. As an actress, I'm constantly watching different shows and films and am always gathering information and inspiration for characters and techniques to make my performances the best they can be.

Rachel G. Fox

#36. I've been to almost every country in the world, and the most frustrating thing for me has been that my schedule has always been so busy that there's so little time before and after performances to explore where I'm visiting.

Andrea Bocelli

#37. I've really enjoyed the independent film world. I've had a blast. But, the reality is that I really want to make bigger movies. If I could make movies that carry great characters and great performances and great pathos, and can have an explosion or two, that would be fine with me.

Matthew Lillard

#38. I have written this because it may have escaped the notice of many who have admired her [Marie Tempest] brilliant performances that they are due not only to her natural gifts ... but to patience, assiduity, industry and discipline. Without these it is impossible to excel in any of the arts.

W. Somerset Maugham

#39. I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'

Jason Dohring

#40. Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

Chris Bailey

#41. Directing was a great experience, but it's terrifying to have the responsibility of carving up the other actors' performances.

John Krasinski

#42. What I want is that I can match my performances during training so I can be satisfied with myself.

Liu Xiang

#43. What I found about 'Nashville' coming in is it's about these small performances. It can be on a big stage but detailed, small, heartfelt, real performances from musicians and singers. So if you try to do something bloated or showy, the directors dial us in and let us know.

Chip Esten

#44. When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket

Jens Lehmann

#45. The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities

Albert Bandura

#46. Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.

Evgeni Kostitsyn

#47. A movie has its own fate, which often doesn't depend on the performances of the director and actors.

Zhang Ziyi

#48. If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.

Swami Vivekananda

#49. What's exciting to me is the live show medium itself; it's the last untouchable medium. I don't think it will ever go away. It has gone on from the beginning of time with little performances around a campfire, I'd imagine, like cavemen doing some chants, rhythm, and sounds, beating on things.

Juliette Lewis

#50. If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.

Spike Jonze

#51. Performances have a bit of a life and a time scale to themselves.

Sue Tompkins

#52. When you have two notes from two different performances Auto-Tuned, it sounds like a car horn. And then you add harmonies, and it starts to sound like baby seals honking. - Tom Lord-Alge on Auto-Tune

Greg Milner

#53. On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

Jean Stapleton

#54. I still believe that 'No Smoking' is one of my best performances.

John Abraham

#55. My appearances are almost theatrical performances. I bring items for the children to see, such as photographs and actual piece of meteorite, a family quilt, sometimes spectacles, sometimes clothing, so that they can understand what I write about is family stories based in fact.

Patricia Polacco

#56. That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.

Dick Button

#57. A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.

Bill Nighy

#58. I've been in a poor physical shape many times in my career and I've had some of my best results. My best performances happened because my mind was in the right place. The mind is definitely stronger than the body.

Kelly Slater

#59. One of the first performances of faith is hearing. We hear the voice of God, not with the outward ear alone, but with the inward ear; we hear it as God's Word, and we believe it to be so; that is the "hearing" of faith.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#60. When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.

Karen DeCrow

#61. After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels

Anson Dorrance

#62. I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.

Johnny Rivers

#63. A true fiction author is able to act through each character in their book and deliver stunning performances.

Conrad Brasso

#64. I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.

Chloe Sevigny

#65. I love to perform not only music, but to make performances extremely visual, and create almost a magical fantasy. It's really an uplifting style of art that combines visuals and music in very dreamlike ways.

Lindsey Stirling

#66. People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Ellen Barkin

#67. ...I'm severely allergic to unsolicited monologue performances in public. While they don't cause sneezing or hives, when exposed, I do experience extreme and immediate vaginal dryness.

Sara Barron

#68. I remind myself: I am the best. I have the best. And I deserve the best. This is one of my personal mantras that I tell myself every morning before auditions, character work, and performances.

Allison Holker

#69. If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

Evan Parker

#70. There seems a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labor of the novelist, and of slighting performances which have only genius, wit and taste to recommend them.

Jane Austen

#71. I also realized that there were lots of unacknowledged theater forms going on all around. Our lives are filled with performances that have been so woven into our daily routine that the artificial and performative aspect has slipped into invisibility.

David Byrne

#72. One thing I'm most proud of, in my movies, is that I think the performances are super-strong, but that's not all me. I think part of it is casting appropriately.

Josh Radnor

#73. With the sincere devotion of our employees, Samsung has achieved stellar performances since its foundation.

Lee Kun-hee

#74. I want to congratulate again Mike Dean. I think his performance was unbelievable and I think when referees have unbelievable performances, I think it's fair that as managers we give them praise. So fantastic performance.

Jose Mourinho

#75. In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.

Michael Caine

#76. I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.

Christopher Eccleston

#77. I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.

Naturi Naughton

#78. I've always seemed to have my best performances when I'm under the most pressure.

Aaron Rodgers

#79. Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey's angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

John C. Maxwell

#80. Preparation Perfect Performances

Andrea Hirata

#81. The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.

Andrew Sarris

#82. Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.

Archie Shepp

#83. Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex - not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.

Gad Elmaleh

#84. My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

Alexander McCall Smith

#85. I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.

Patricia MacLachlan

#86. No, I'm not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you'd get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work.

Whitney Houston

#87. Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games

John Wooden

#88. While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.

James Nesbitt

#89. As we have come to view teaching, it begins with an act of reason, continues with a process of reasoning, culminates in performances of imparting, eliciting, involving, or enticing, and is then thought about some more until the process can begin again

Lee S Shulman

#90. Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.

Sam Riley

#91. Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get you anywhere. A club is judged solely on results, and to get results, you must win ball games.

Billy Evans

#92. I look forward to putting out the new CD and doing the television performances to show everyone that B. Brown is back. In fact, I never left.

Bobby Brown

#93. I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you!

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#94. I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

Nicolas Cage

#95. He[John Cassavetes] was just being an actor. A very successful actor, especially in live TV. He did many wonderful performances.

Gena Rowlands

#96. Early practice is vital so that performances became totally ingrained and flow from the subconscious.

Earl Woods

#97. The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it!

Gunther Schuller

#98. I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#99. Performances will determine who actually ends up being the eighth-inning guy.

Brad Ausmus

#100. I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.

John Eaton