The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.
~By Leo Kottke ~
We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.
~By Penelope Keith ~
Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.
~By Michael Tippett ~
People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!
~By Deborah Bull ~
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 what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them.
~By David Morse ~
The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.
~By Fritz Weaver ~
Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
~By James Bryant Conant ~
Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.
~By Major Taylor ~
A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.
~By Pat Riley ~
If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.
~By Roger McGough ~
Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will.
~By Marion Jones ~
Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.
~By Gordon Moore ~
I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance.
~By Jessie Matthews ~
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!'
~By Jason Dohring ~
The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
~By David Copperfield ~
Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.
~By Audrey Meadows ~
I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
~By Georg Simmel ~
Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
~By Taylor Hackford ~
I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness.
~By Jay London ~
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
~By Jack Bowman ~
The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.
~By Kazuo Ishiguro ~
I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.
~By Connie Stevens ~
Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.
~By Lukas Foss ~
I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance.
~By Chuck Mangione ~
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
~By Harold S. Geneen ~
A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.
~By Kelly Jones ~
An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance.
~By Curt Gowdy ~
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.
~By Steven Chu ~
If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.
~By Allan Carr ~
There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
~By Carlisle Floyd ~
What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
~By Earle Brown ~
I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.
~By Jerry Hall ~
For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.
~By Roger Mudd ~
If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.
~By Vin Diesel ~
Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me.
~By Christian Slater ~
I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance.
~By Jon Favreau ~
So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see.
~By Alice Cooper ~
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
~By Ansel Adams ~
People tend to remember my performances, not me.
~By Ellen Barkin ~
And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.
~By John W. Snow ~
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
~By William Shakespeare ~
Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
~By Samantha Morton ~
I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?
~By Monica Bellucci ~
The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation.
~By Trip Hawkins ~
The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works.
~By Jane Byrne ~
The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.
~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.
~By Maureen O'Hara ~
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.
~By James Taylor ~
Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.
~By Richard Lugar ~
I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.
~By Hugo Weaving ~
For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.
~By Ron Moody ~
I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
~By Charles Barkley ~
Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
~By Nancy Greene ~
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
~By Ralph Marston ~
Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.
~By Gloria Stuart ~
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 deterrent.
~By Michael Wilbon ~
We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
~By Ben Harper ~
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance.
~By Shelley Berman ~
As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive.
~By Sarah Caldwell ~
I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.
~By Milton Babbitt ~
We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.
~By Joseph Jarman ~
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
~By Harold S. Geneen ~
China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.
~By Charles Foster Bass ~
America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
~By Meryl Streep ~
Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
~By Jack Bowman ~
I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music.
~By Peter Maxwell Davies ~
Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance.
~By Bill Toomey ~
Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.
~By Damon Hill ~
Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.
~By Jon Postel ~
I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.
~By Anne Dudley ~
Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.
~By Elliott Carter ~
I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.
~By Scott Hamilton ~
Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
~By Natalie Portman ~
Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital.
~By Howard Dean ~
When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.
~By Joel Siegel ~
To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.
~By Keith Richards ~
Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.
~By Robert Fripp ~
The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.
~By Brit Hume ~
The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.
~By Shelley Berman ~
Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh.
~By Mark Goddard ~
The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections.
~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.
~By Marc Davis ~
You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.
~By Marisa Tomei ~
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
~By Harold S. Geneen ~
I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.
~By Julie Taymor ~
I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.
~By Larry Wilcox ~
Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.
~By Harold S. Geneen ~
Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
~By Van Morrison ~
I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.
~By John Eaton ~
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