Quotes About Performance

Comedy Is Not Pretty!

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

Study after study has shown that motivation probably has a larger effect on productivity and quality than any other factor

When people are being observed, they want to look good and perform well.

I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.

Perfectionism is procrastination masquerading as quality control.

You might even be punished for performance that by any reasonable measure is truly excellent.

Don't listen to what people say; watch what they do.

But a mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student's performance than a completely different set of factors: namely, how much kids have learned from their parents, how hard they work at home, and whether the parents have instilled an appetite for education.

As if the only genuine gestures were the small ones, the ones devoid of an audience. As if true honesty belonged to solitude, since to be witnessed was to perform, and performance was inherently false since it invited expectation.

I wear whatever makes me comfortable on stage, so that I feel confident. Some days it's a plaid skirt with a button-up and other days it's jeans with a hockey jersey and platforms.

What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.

As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or six feet long. How I dress is a very personal thing. It is scary that every time I wear a T-shirt, it becomes a talking point for the next three days.

I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

My performance outfits are very Marie Antoinette, sparkly corsets... and full skirts. And then we do another look that's '50s-inspired. Poufy skirts, big bows. Very fun, girlie and young, but otherwise, when I'm not in costume, I dress really normal.

The Bangles are proof that short skirts and electric guitars go hand-in-hand. They are one of the great all-girl groups, backing up their looks with a serious pop-rock pedigree.

It's always hard to watch bad actors improv on your skit.

There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I'm in a 'Saturday Night Live' skit.

In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.

When I walk out on stage, I don't know who's in the audience. To me, in my little fat skull, the laugh is just the widest demographic you can get.

I think each character is different for me, but I am a director's actor. So if I get the right vision and right guidance from my director, I think sky is the limit for me.

I can do the Sky Hook, but I'm not confident with it.

When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.

Putting up a great performance against Lamont Peterson will skyrocket me. The goal is to become the No. 1 welterweight in the division, so if I keep beating these guys around me and then fight Keith Thurman, people will rate me as No. 1 because I've beat the top names, and he's been inactive.