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Quotes About Performance

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band
~ David Crosby
I have lots of interests, but it's true that dancing is a very full-time job.
~ Deborah Bull
Looking into blood doping. I think it will allow me to write jokes with greater intensity, and for a longer period of time.
~ Dov Davidoff
Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.
~ Harbhajan Singh
A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.
~ Edward Teller
In order to have a lasting career you'll need to spend time performing live to build your own audience, as it's not all about social media. Word of mouth still rules.
~ Eliot Lewis
Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.
~ Elizabeth Debicki
Every time I am on the field I am a threat to make a big play. I am going to do my job every day and can be relied upon.
~ Eric Thomas
I haven't been on the stage in a long time.
~ Erika Slezak
because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.
~ Florence King
I think we all feel the same things most of the time, we just don't know how to put it into words. When I'm on stage, I say it. The truth makes people laugh.
~ George Lopez
The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform.
~ Howard Gossage
The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.
~ James Brown
At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.
~ James Dyson
Well, there was a time when we used to sacrifice goats, but then we all became vegans, so we've been sacrificing tofu before the shows!
~ Jared Leto
I started out performing as a little boy, I was trying to make my mother feel better and laugh because she was sick and in pain all the time. I found out that I had that power to relieve her.
~ Jim Carrey
I think men spend so much time passing for being men.
~ Junot Diaz
I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre is like that. Every time is different.
~ Kevin Spacey
I started out playing in clubs. I always like existing under ground and over ground at the same time.
~ Lady Gaga
I did everything I could except win. I feel fine. I just played bad at a big time.
~ Lindsay Davenport
I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.
~ Louis C. K.
First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.
~ Mac Davis
When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to play a pattern. You play the pattern by being consistent.
~ Miles Davis