Quotes About Performance

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.

'SNL' after-parties are sort of like a time to celebrate your successes and drown your sorrows, depending on how the show went for you.

The good news is in the record business, they only count your successes.

I'm actually fighting my own benchmarks in a lot of ways. The number of games that I've managed to win for my country and for myself, the number of successes I've had and the excellence I've shown is always measured up in equal parlance when I travel away from the country, which is great.

You have to be a student of the game to be successful, and it's promising when you can say that, with a world-record performance, I still have things to improve on!

Management is always part of the equation of making the company successful, so the quality of management always matters.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

The principle that needs to be used to guide the spending is, 'How successful is the program?'

You grow up always thinking you'd be in pressure situations all the time, and that's why I put pressure on myself in practice, so when those situations come in the game I feel I can be successful.

I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn.

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.

The most successful people in comedy do seem to be the most funny.

The most successful people do play extensions of themselves in the ring.

When you're not successful, people look at the driver and say, 'what's wrong with him?' and sometimes the drivers look back and wonder 'what makes you think you're not the problem?'

If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything.

You can't do TLC dances successfully in high heels.

A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.

There are so many reasons to mark the passing of the great Joe Cocker - as many songs as he wrote, recorded and performed in his remarkable concerts. For me, Cocker was also the only performer who successfully covered and even improved on The Beatles.

In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

I was successfully hiding from the world on Broadway for about 25 years.

If everyone knows the role they play, and they do their job - executing it well and with enthusiasm - it comes together successfully every time.