Performances Quotes

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich' or 'North Country.' They were both so amazing and so inspiring. I would love to touch someone in the way their performances touched me.

Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.

Two, I actually learned a lot of things that served me very well when it came to repeating performances on stage, because it is a craft and you do need a technique for it.

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

I think 'SNL' is so well-known for its musical performances, as well, and people really breaking into America through a really great performance on there. So I think me and Gotye are both really excited to be amongst such company. You know, it's great.

I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully.

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

I look forward to putting out the new CD and doing the television performances to show everyone that B. Brown is back. In fact, I never left.

I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music.

Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a big enough machine behind you, you get nominated, because truly how many of the best performances actually win...not many.

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.

I always see things that I can improve. But frankly with Stripes, I'm surprised at how effective it is, even today, and how vibrant that movie is and how juicy the performances all are.

It's been an amazing year of individual performances.

The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.

I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.

On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers.

There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.

I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.

There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible.

I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.

I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.

The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it!