Top 1200 Stage Performance Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Brie Larson's performance in 'Room' was pretty incredible.

An Elias performance is worth the price of admission.

It doesn't do to eat too much before a performance.

The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, "Ah Maestro, you are a genius!" Paderewski tartly replied, "Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!" What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

There's a joy I think people feel from... my performance.

All good performance starts with clear goals.

There are lots of incredible people who are working in very flawed structures that are designed to keep us apart, so we're going to have to figure this out. The first stage is just talking about it openly: We are all working within structures where there is a disincentive to do what we most need to do, which is come together. I don't know what the answer is but I definitely think that that first stage is just being honest about it and trying to speak about it in a way that is not just accusatory.

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance

Even one player's performance can affect the entire team.

I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.

I want to be recognized for my performance as an athlete and not because of who I am.

I just want to be treated fairly for my performance.

'Chandi' was received well and my performance was particularly appreciated.

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness.

When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.

An actor should be judged by his performance only.

I can never focus on a film because I'm conscious of my performance.

My performance is totally dependent on what the other actors are doing.

With attitude, you can determine your own performance.

I still get nervous before every performance.

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

Modesty is not possible in performance in the Caribbean - and that's wonderful.

Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation

I always knew I wanted to be a performance artist.

There's always a performance going on in our house.

On the performance end, I take a lot of advice from my sister.

Performance should be made square with promise.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

I double-majored in Political Studies and Theatre & Performance.

Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.

Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.

Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.

There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are no longer original productions possible, apparently, on the commercial stage. They are all plays that were taken from either England or smaller theaters, off-Broadway theaters, and so on. The one justification there used to be for the commercial theater was that it originated everything we had, and now it originates nothing. But the powers that be seem perfectly content to have it that way. They don't risk anything anymore, and they simply pick off the cream.

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.

Good performance in government was never Imran's target.

You don’t give someone notes on their performance at a soup kitchen.

Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

I thrive with high-performance challenges in front of me.

A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.

You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

I think the way I eat is the foundation of my performance.

Preferences are bad solutions to performance problems.

No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.

Early on I was a lot more unsure of myself on stage. When our band The Decemberists was getting bigger audiences I was more concerned about alienating them, so I wasn't as willing to take risks and do weird stuff on stage. But once you get more accustomed to it you tend to have more fun with it and not worry about being pilloried for acting out. Whenever you play in front of 400 or 500 more people than you're used to it's always a weird, transitional period.

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.

I never considered myself a performance artist.

The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.

There is nothing like getting a performance-oriented role.

I think not every improviser is a good stage actor. Certainly not every stage actor is a good improviser.

I think you have to dig deep in every performance.

I was always training for appearance rather than performance.

They got a great performance from me. I was happy.

I'm committed to an honest expression, not necessarily a performance.

I love competing in front of a crowd. I enjoy the performance.

Any performance I do, I give 110 percent.

That's what separates actors - I'll take any risk for a performance.