Quotes About Performance

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.

Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

It is a solid business principle that people who enjoy what they do are better at what they do.

Good marketers measure.

I was the happiest and highest paid straight woman in the business.

I got to show off in front of my husband, who married me as I was stepping out of the business, so he had no idea that I could strut my stuff on the stage.

I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world.

If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.

As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.

I have this mistress: show business.

Either an executive can do his job or he can't.

I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that.

When I moved into management, it was all about managing people and keeping them motivated - I didn't use sales metrics to drive my business. Now, everything comes from the numbers.

You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.