Quotes About Performance

There's only one way to describe most investors: trend followers.

If everyone likes it, it's probably because it has been doing well. Most people seem to think that outstanding performance to dates presages outstanding future performance. Actually, it's more likely that outstanding future performance to date has borrowed from the future and thus presages subpar performance from her on out.

To Coach Brantford, I could do almost nothing right. He told me that I didn't play tough enough, I didn't hit anybody and that my skating and passing needed a lot of work. If you came to a practice or a game, you'd have never known that I scored 25 goals & had 39 assists what with Coach Brantford always harping on me about something I was doing wrong.

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

achievement is valued and rewarded above all else.

People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.

The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.

I once sang 'Summer Nights ' from 'Grease ' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.

I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz ' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.

I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.

I'm doing 'Les Miserables ' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.

Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

There's a lot of gimmick infringement out there, but that's cool. It's a compliment. But it all started right when I first came into the Garden. I came down to 'Eye of the Tiger' and when I hit the ring with the Sheik, I just put my hand up to my ear by accident, and the crowd got louder. I was like 'Oh, that works.'

Acting is like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it.

I was sent to a teacher called Alf Adamson, who had a country dance band that toured the Borders.

Ignored in the self-laudatory commentary about the stock market's performance were other less positive facts. The Karachi Stock Exchange's market capitalization in 2016 stood at a meagre $89 billion, which compares unfavourably with the $320 billion capitalization of the Dhaka Stock Exchange in Bangladesh.

Gilbert and Sullivan is for me ... a balm, a tonic, and a stimulant. When I am down, it picks me up. When I am tired, it restores me. When I am feeling on top of the world, it lets me express my joy in song." -- Ian Bradley, "Oh Joy! Oh Rapture!

Those bands, in their style and approach, that's what I call tits-and-ass metal," comments Rob Halford of Judas

This piece of Performance Art entitled 'The Elector Passes' has been brought to you by the members of the Raging Apostles

When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.