I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie and they go see the movie and they expect a certain performance one way or the other. That is just inherently boring to me. – John C. Reilly
The Smiths hasn’t been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance. – Jeff Buckley
It’s a challenge to grow professionally and move up the corporate ladder when you’re not receiving feedback on your performance. – John Rampton
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. – Jon Favreau
It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product. – Jim Sensenbrenner
A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor’s input. – Jacki Weaver
We’re all so mauled by information, but it’s recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you’ve got to get bizarre. This is an artist’s purpose – to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that. – Jack Bowman
When determining appropriate levels of compensation, management must determine if the employee turnover rate is too low, too high, or just right. If turnover rate is high enough to adversely impact the entity’s performance, then employee compensation is probably too low. – Jason Chaffetz
With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren’t the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren’t all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them. – Imelda May
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before. – Jack Bowman
You’re always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else. – Ioan Gruffudd
You need to find the size of performance that’s appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene. – Jason Alexander
Take any movie with an actor you like. Turn your head and just listen to the performance. In some cases, the physical presence remains as strong when you can’t see the actor, when it’s just the voice. – John Lasseter
Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked. – Judy Holliday
I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward. – Judy Holliday
We will also have a more rigorous approach to professional development and managing unsatisfactory performance. – Jay Weatherill
I’ve done my coaching badges, I’ve got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I’m doing now. I’m also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales – and I’m lucky enough to still be involved with both of them. – Ian Rush
AOL had a very strong motive to create the appearance of high revenues for PurchasePro because the value of the warrants AOL had received in the deal depended on PurchasePro’s performance. – James Comey
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it’s essence tends to become creativity. – Jack Bowman
From what I’ve been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better. – Joe Eszterhas
I think I’m actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I’m not a one-man band. – Jason Bateman
The world of the stage and the performance on the stage usually does not tend to translate very well – it doesn’t tend to hold very well – once cameras are on it; it’s not like it’s terrible or embarrassing or bad anything, but, I, as an actor, would perform a role differently for an audience than I would for just cameras. – Jason Alexander
While I’ve never ‘phoned in’ a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver. – James Nesbitt
The on-stage Gracie may look poised, but the real Gracie is shy, a little self-conscious, and, before every performance of my life, panicky. – Gracie Allen
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
