Performance Quotes

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

All you owe the public is a good performance.

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

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.

There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.

You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

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.

With NOAH, you can create some stunning, yet original soundscapes. Therefore, as a performance tool, it really comes into its own because you can make one single performance which has a lot of detail.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.

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.

From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance.

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.

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.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

I don't really unwind after a performance. I'm still pumped up and just want to get back on stage.

Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms - and we can keep them there.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.