Quotes About Performance

All promise outruns the performance.

An acre of performance is worth the whole Land of promise...

It's better by far to deliver more than you promise than to promise more than you can deliver.

Entertainment is the first function of radio and always will be, whether presented through a majestic polyphonic ensemble or through a lone artist whose talent grips millions by a single word.

Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.

The fact is, such an undertaking [an album that reveals a little more of the artist's core insecurities and the reality of the aging process] wouldn't be an honest reflection of Jagger's life: he still goes clubbing, he still jet-sets, he still has a keen and active interest in the opposite sex, ha can still prance around stage for two hours a night without requiring hospitalization. He is not your average 65-year-old.

But live shows are cool. I just got back into the idea of enjoying it live.

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.

I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.

Every physical movement is mannered, thought-out, plotted for maximum screen effect. She takes deep breaths. She seems to sigh a lot. She's the first-class passenger on a ride of her own invention and she loves the fact that she can share it.

Your family is depending on you. No better reason to bring all your game all the time.

Shakespeare said all the world is a stage... I think its a gym.

When the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name—He marks—not that you won or lost—but how you played the game.

For when the One Great Scorer comes To mark against your name, He writes - not that you won or lost - But HOW you played the Game. "Alumnus Football

You write what you know, and I know rock and roll.

the splat of pies would become a regular component of slapstick, and no one was more adept at throwing them than Arbuckle. The ambidextrous actor sometimes accurately hurled two pies in opposite directions simultaneously.

Leaders get rewarded for the three Bs: budgets, buildings and butts in the seats.

I don't come on to seduce the audience. I don't care if everyone laughs. I can't think about that anymore. If there's anything that a lot of experience on stage and a lot of stage time gives you is the confidence to know that it's ok if they're not laughing every second you're up there. Although that's what drives me and I still go too fast a lot of the time.

Working over 21 hours in a stretch increases the odds of you making a catastrophic error just as much as being legally drunk.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.

A project is the work performed by an organization one time to produce a unique outcome. By one time, we mean the work has a definite beginning and a definite end, and by unique, we mean the work result is different in one or more ways from anything the organization has produced before.

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.