Performance Quotes

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.

One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. What works in one doesn't work in the other, and you have to be looking for the truth of the performance, whatever way that medium might demand.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

Well, any time I'm preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, it's as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today.

So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English.

I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me and just said 'You are doing your own thing and I am proud of you.'

As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.