For me it’s all about performance. Nothing good happens in the world by being happy and cosy. Nobody achieves anything great because they’re happy and cosy. – Alex Honnold
You’re going to see this ‘Internet of things’ start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them. – Hans Vestberg
There’s so much to learn about acting and performance in general… I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think. – Haley Joel Osment
Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can’t layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it’s more difficult than drama – you don’t have so many tricks. – Grant Bowler
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 2, Act 2, Scene 4.
Claude Rains was what we call an actor’s actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance. – Gloria Stuart
I can’t imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it. – Harold Ramis
The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it’s so addictive. – Gwyneth Paltrow
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. – Geoff Downes
When you see a comedian on stage, the best comedians make it feel like a conversation. But it’s not. We have very little interest in what an audience has to say during a performance. Being a stand-up comedian, you’re an egomaniac to some degree. Everyone wants to hear what you have to say, apparently. That’s not how real relationships work. – Hari Kondabolu
I’m very interested in heritage restoration, and I’m working with a group of people to create a number of academies and performance spaces to encourage native arts and crafts and to explore African history. – Hugh Masekela
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away. – Harold S. Geneen
Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you’re a performance artist. – Golan Levin
I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem – you are the voice in the poem. – Helen Vendler
You can be moved by a performance on set, but when you see it on screen, it does nothing. Yet there will be someone you simply didn’t notice on set that on screen: bam! – Helen McCrory
People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that’s where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It’s a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first. – Gagan Narang
I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of ‘Performance’ called ‘The Entertainer’ with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice. – Helen McCrory
Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don’t want to go. – Henry Cavill
‘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. – Harry Connick, Jr.
For me, a diva is like the great opera singer, the great film star – out of reach, in their own world, with a real gift for invention: attention-demanding performance artists with a flamboyant, compelling sense of their own importance so special and inimitable it verges on the alien. – Grace Jones
If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes. – Henry Cloud
In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film. – Gwyneth Paltrow