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Quotes About Performance

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire
~ August Bournonville
I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.
~ Jon Foreman
One of my favourites is American Beauty. Spacey is so good in that.
~ Christopher Mintz-Plasse
The beauty of being an actor in a horror film is that you know what to expect and what's coming.
~ Denzel Whitaker
The best way to win a game is not to lose it.
~ Erk Russell
We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.
~ Cleo Moore
Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players
~ Jock Stein
If you believe you're good already, you don't need to do extra stuff to impress us. Your best work comes when you're absorbed; because then your ego is away.
~ Keith Johnstone
It doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't matter what other people think. You have to get on the ice and participate and play and the best team wins.
~ Wayne Gretzky
My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.
~ Carl Lewis
The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.
~ Paul Halmos
If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
~ Richard Burton
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
~ Jean Giraudoux
I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.
~ Elliott Gould
The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.
~ Unknown
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
~ Stephen Sondheim
You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but that's all you've got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.
~ Walter Hagen
The best way to get away from a crisis and yet hold on the reins without performance is to find a godfather who would save you at crisis and fool the entire world..This is how it has worked for me.
~ Sourav Ganguly
The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.
~ Joshua Bell
You just go in and try to do the best job you can everyday.
~ Nick Cassavetes
Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.
~ Jack Nicklaus
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
~ Thomas More
You're as good as the best thing you've ever done.
~ Billy Wilder
We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play?
~ Bud Wilkinson