Quotes About Performance

I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.

You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.

It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.

I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them.

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be.

I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen.

I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress.

Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.

We've always had a dark atmosphere to our performances, so it sort of developed along those ways.

No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

They got a great performance from me. I was happy.

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.