Top 1200 Best Performance Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I say this about everything: when I was on 'Neighbours,' I said, 'These are the best years of my life!' When I was filming 'The Wolf Of Wall Street,' I said, 'These are the best months of my life!' I always think I'm having the best time ever, and that I'll never have so much fun again.

I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.

When you're the best, and you know you're the best, and your contemporaries know you're the best, that's a terrific edge.

I never claimed to be the best singer, I never claimed to be the best dancer, but I do claim to be the person that can put them together best.

My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward... Making a film is like cooking a pot au feu. You choose the best carrots, the best potatoes the best meat, etc., and you throw all that together - but if there's no soul, so to speak, it won't yield much.

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'

Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.

We owe our troops the opportunity to serve in the best-planned, best-equipped, and best-led military force in the world, and we owe them the peace of mind that comes from knowing that they and their families will be taken care of if they sacrifice life, limb or the ability to sleep without war's nightmares. We owe them not just thanks and best wishes, but action, and action in our nation's capital.

There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.

If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing.

I think the best work of the director is to listen to what all the technicians around him have to say, but then the thing is to take the best decision, what you think is the best. Then, that is the moment where you have to have all the film in your head and imagine how all of that will fit together.

What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might not have the same endowment. And so this bespeaks an entirely different philosophy — a different way of life — a different kind of relationship — where the object is not to put down the other, but to raise up the other.

'Inside' was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.

I've been flying high-performance aircraft for a really long time.

The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out.

I was being singled out as the best in the class at this, that and the other, nearly always to do with art. And then I was a very good swimmer from a very early age, and once again the best in the class, and when I was about five or six, I was the best in the school.

I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.

I feel like Rio 2016 was my worst performance, and really my burnout.

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

I'm not just the best in NXT; I'm not just the best in the WWE: I'm the best on the freaking planet.

The goal is just to try to get better and better, and the only way that makes sense to do that is to work with the best people. Surround yourself with the best artists and learn from them, and try to sink your teeth into the best material possible.

I believe that the performance of my actors is of utmost importance to make a good film.

All countries have poor people. Yet it's a very rare country which understands the indignities of poverty, while education systems maintain the status quo. The children of the elite go to the best schools and get the best jobs, not because they are the best. We're not taking advantage of the intellectual power on this planet.

When you have a live performance, you're going to be pitchy here and there, unless you have perfect pitch.

The audience, the place you're in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

I think that there's only one nationality and one language in the sport, and you call it performance.

My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best art in black people. The best example is, Reagan and Bush gave us the best years of hiphop.

I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it's a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film.

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.

Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.

Rested, Refreshed, and Ready to run, the three Rs of peak performance.

You don't ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams.

My motto is: look your best, feel your best, but most of all, be your best at any age.

I don't believe in overcooking the actors too much. Especially when it's a real performance that I'm looking for.

A lot of people celebrate the '80s. I was a '90s guy. The best music, and basketball, was at its high in the '90s, with all of the best players, playing the best style of basketball in that era, and Michael Jordan winning six rings in the city I grew up in.

In terms of performance, something unexpected is always good, it's preferable if it's unexpectedly good. But unexpectedly bad has a lot to say for it as well. It's always nice to be able to look back on a show and say, "Oh, that's the night that this happened," and a lot of the worst memories are better than the shows with no memories. A good rehearsal is a lot harder to describe. A lot of rehearsals that end up feeling best are the ones where something really bad was happening, and you just kind of got past it and fought through it. Just dealing with things that are inevitable.

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

When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.

I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.

I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.

Oh that thou hadst like others been all words, And no performance.

A great physique and a good performance make for a delicious combination.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.

You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.

I owe so much of my musical growth to my exploration and performance of Carnatic music.

I feel, it is essential to see oneself on-screen so as to be a better judge of one's performance.

People want to be inspired. They want to aspire to something. ... You can have the best product, the best service, the best argument in a debate. But without the effective words you still lose. In the end you need good principles and good language if you are to succeed.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

I beat some of the best of the best, and I've lost to some of the best of the best.

I'm not saying I'm trying to be the best. I'm gonna be the best. The best me ever. To the point where I can't lose at being me. I can't lose that life.

The more I know, the best I believe. The more I know, the best I'm worshiping Him. Because, in the end Allah knows the best.

I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

m doing my best" "no,this isn't your best. We shall recognize your best when it appears

It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.

The best songs don't get recorded; the best recordings don't get released; and the best releases don't get played.

Any kind of gender expression is performance for me, regardless of where it is on the spectrum.