Quotes About Performance

Arsenal have been literally passed to death.

It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.

Sit the comedy out, and that done, when the Play's at an end, let the Curtain fall down.

I was bored to death and thinking more about the minibar and the after-show party than the performance.

If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you're going to have problems. You'll be dead a lot.

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine.

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

Fiat has a lot going for it in terms of design, technology and efficiency.

Is Coors Field a good park to hit in? Yeah. So are Wrigley Field and Camden Yards. I didn't design Coors Field-I just play there.

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel

It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on discovering the source of energy in the actor from which true impulses arise.

Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one's least impressive qualities.

If your desire is a 10 but your self-esteem is a 5, you'll never perform at the level of a 10. You'll perform as a 5 or lower. People are ever able to outperform their self-image.

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.

For me, it's about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.

Dependable teams members possess the desire to do the things they are capable of doing.

The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.

People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

Each of us has our own destiny. Mine is to be an actor.