Performances Quotes

I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.

I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room.

For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.

I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances.

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

Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.

I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.

I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible 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.

My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me once or twice a year so they can watch the performances and hear the crowds. Traveling with eighty-something-year-olds on a tour bus... there has to be some sort of reality show in that.

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb 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.

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.

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

In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances.

But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

You know. I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes. All that kind of stuff to do sometimes, to do good performances, but always conducive to having a good time creatively.

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.

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.

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

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

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.