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Performance Quotes

I’m too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva.

– Shirley Bassey

In the movies, I loved Errol Flynn whether he was playing a soldier or a pirate. I dug pirates. In fact, my first exposure to live performances was when my paternal grandfather took me to a D’Oyly Carte performance of ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ which impresario Sol Hurok imported from London. I loved every minute of it.

– Stephen Lang

It doesn’t matter to me if I’m in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what’s working and what’s not. And I see the movies that I’m in in the theater a lot.

– T. J. Miller

It’s all performing; that’s what we do in life. We talk, we look, and we hear, and we listen. Your life is a performance.

– Seymour Cassel

When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture – it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

– Yanni

I want a performance style that’s more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.

– Scott Weiland

Computers double their performance every month.

– Stephen Hawking

I can be completely spontaneous, which is absolutely wonderful. I don’t like it at the same time; no one wants to be nervous all the time, but that nervousness mixes with the excitement I feel on the stage, and it makes for a wonderful performance.

– Sophie B. Hawkins

Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.

– Yani Tseng

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

– Taylor Swift

Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter – itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self – and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.

– Samantha Harvey

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.

– Will Oldham

It’s the worst feeling, coming back after a performance when you are on a real high, and you go back alone to an apartment or a hotel room. People think we sit in hotels and eat bon bons. But the lifestyle can be very stressful.

– Sondra Radvanovsky

I’m inspired every time I see a role I’d like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I’d like to tell, direct or produce.

– T’Keyah Crystal Keymah

I think the biggest myth entrepreneurs have is that the growth and performance of their startups depends more on their entrepreneurial talent than on the businesses they choose.

– Scott Shane

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

– Shelley Berman

Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn’t just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.

– Sarah Kay

I like the energy of live performance.

– Sandra Bernhard

Music is about the performance.

– Vanessa Mae

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

– Taylor Hackford

I don’t care what reviewers think. If somebody hates a performance of mine, I kind of get a kick out of it. It amuses me when critics take something so irrelevant as a movie so seriously.

– Stephen Baldwin

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

– Steven Chu

After the comedy boom of the ’80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and could do in order to be successful touring comedians, and those were mainly observational comedians who had a very strict structure of what made an act, and I think it was very performance oriented.

– Scott Aukerman

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain’s performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can’t control, namely, speech.

– Tom Wolfe

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

– Shelley Berman

Even though I’ve won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.

– Victoria Pendleton

My identity is not based on performance; it’s based on something that’s pre-determined by someone else, and I don’t even understand what that is because I’m an African who came to America.

– Toyin Odutola

Our brains are wired such that it’s difficult to take action until we feel at least some level of this emotional state. In fact, performance peaks under the heightened activation that comes with moderate levels of stress. As long as the stress isn’t prolonged, it’s harmless.

– Travis Bradberry

Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That’s what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.

– Venus Williams

For me, the intellect is always the guide but not the goal of the performance. Three things have to be coordinated, and not one must stick out. Not too much intellect because it can become scholastic. Not too much heart because it can become schmaltz. Not too much technique because you become a mechanic.

– Vladimir Horowitz

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