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Quotes About Performance

So in crime the murderer who is successful cannot conceive the possibility of not being successful! He takes to himself all the credit for a successful performance—but I tell you, my friends, however carefully planned, no crime can be successful without luck!
~ Agatha Christie
Old Laycock then displayed his particular genius which was that of enthusiastic agreement and subsequent lack of performance.
~ Agatha Christie
Prego, mio caro; ci si può sempre ingannare. Guardi una grande attrice: la sua mimica del dolore commuove e scuote, tanto è vera.
~ Agatha Christie
Laycock then displayed his particular genius which was that of enthusiastic agreement and subsequent lack of performance.
~ Agatha Christie
Tapi, panggung bukanlah sebuah kenyataan
~ Agatha Christie (author)
A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.
~ Aimé Césaire
Nothing is Real; it's a Cosmic Drama. We are just Actors; we Come and we Go. There will be Laughter; there will be Tears. Such is the Cosmic Show.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
There is no End. At Death, we Transcend. We are just Actors; we Come and Go. We must do our Part, the best way we can. And we must Enjoy the Show!
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
~ Ajay Naidu
My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.
~ Ajay Naidu
Preparing for this second shot, the actress playing the daughter (Todoroki Yukiko) asked me, "Mr. Kurosawa, do I just pray for my father's victory?" I replied, "Yes, that's right, but while you're at it, you might as well pray for the success of this picture, too.
~ Akira Kurosawa
The ordinary Japanese actor might need ten feet of film to get across an impression; Mifune needed only three feet.
~ Akira Kurosawa
You ain't heard nothin' yet, folks.
~ Al Jolson
Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
~ Al McGuire
All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars ' mainly because I would be too shy.
~ Al Pacino
I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.
~ Al Pacino
I've got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I've got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is.
~ Al Unser
One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.
~ Al Yankovic
A un certo punto avevano attaccato con una cover di Anything Anything dei Dramarama, e noi eravamo corsi a ballare sotto il palco, mentre il cantante strillava e si dimenava. […] E poi, quando era arrivato il ritornello finale, il cantante aveva continuato a ripetere senza sosta il verso finale: Just marry me, marry me, marry meeeee. All'improvviso si erano accese le luci, il cantante si era zittito e Jack si era inginocchiato davanti a me.
~ Alafair Burke
It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
~ Alain Prost
Mohali Kings XI was probably the
~ Alam Srinivas
I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
~ Alan Alda
While leadership is important, just as important is how leadership is communicated. On the one hand, you can command good performance from someone in exchange for not firing them. On the other hand, you might be able to ignite the desire in a person to perform well by tuning in to their state of mind.
~ Alan Alda
I knew I wanted to act from when I was five, and I started studying seriously when I was six and seven. Not with anybody else, but I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.
~ Alan Arkin