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Quotes About Performance

We play happy music, and we make people happy. That's why they like us.
~ Chris Barber
I have a good time when I'm acting, and bottom line, I just want to enjoy myself and be a happy person, and acting makes me happy. I enjoy it, and it's a good way to escape yourself. You just become somebody else for a little bit, and it's a lot of fun.
~ Lily-Rose Depp
I will not be a very satisfied, happy person if I don't perform at the level that I expect.
~ Joey Votto
Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
~ Walter Hagen
Being the front guy is a hard job.
~ Ry Cooder
Sometimes I ride my bike to see the kids after a matinee and then ride back to do the show. That's the hard part, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
~ Marcia Gay Harden
In this business, if you lose, you're gonna get fired. Now, if you win, you still may get fired. That's the hard part. You see guys having success and getting fired. That's really tough to watch.
~ Stan Van Gundy
The hard part is majors are exhausting on their own. They're a long week. So the hard part is your energy levels.
~ Tommy Fleetwood
I like to play characters, man. I almost don't even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that's a hard thing to realize, but I really just think of them as characters.
~ Kevin Bacon
A play is a hard thing, particularly in L.A. It's less expensive than in New York, but there's also less of a commitment to people doing plays than in New York. So it's a strange battle.
~ Holly Hunter
Now that I'm acting, I've realized that I don't have a lot of barriers. Certain actors have a hard time with anger or with joy or with whatever, and, I don't know, I don't seem to have those barriers.
~ Jay Duplass
Personally, I have a hard time playing live. A big part of it is because the lyrics are really private.
~ Hope Sandoval
There were some people with their arms crossed who gave me a hard time just to see what I'd do after so long. But it's okay because everyone loved my performance in Buddhivanta.'
~ Suman Ranganathan
When I came into the league trying to party and having too much of a good time, I found out the hard way how it affected my performance.
~ Tony Gonzalez
Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.
~ Tommy Lee Jones
This acting was very hard work.
~ Jack Levine
My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors.
~ Pola Negri
To me, acting is all about hard work and talent. Once you get your first wrinkle, if you are a female actress, nobody will care about what you look like - it's all about what you can do.
~ Dominik Garcia-Lorido
I know it's financially lucrative to go out on my own, but I don't like it. It's really hard work, just the performance aspect. I like people who look like they've been together for too long and sound like they've been together too long. I like rock n' roll bands.
~ Jason Isbell
The easier it looks on screen, the more hard work goes into making it so.
~ Nawazuddin Siddiqui
What is hardcore? Hardcore is not just being hardcore, hardcore is going in the ring and giving 100% of yourself. Hardcore is great fans.
~ Terry Funk
I've played a lot of bad guys over the years, a lot of hardcore guys. At the same time, I've done a lot of comedy.
~ Jonathan Banks
Crowds are always different, but I know I have hardcore fans who watch everything I do online, so I have to make sure every match is different.
~ Matt Riddle
When I was 16 I was in a neo hardcore band called Finger Charge. I played the drums with my shirt off.
~ Bonobo