Quotes About Performance

Stand-up comedy is a science. Every comedian is a psychology major, naturally.

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

Personality and salesmanship do not produce except in the competitive sense.

Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.

Your ability to show discretion defines your likeliness to contribute to a wholesome performance.

every successful hardware has a software behind

As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.

Play the game with a smile.

I'm always happy to play the bad girl. I just get to have fun, and it's obviously all done with a smile.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

I don't want to just play the same thing. But with The Red Road, no one has ever seen me like that. No one really even knows that I smile, have a personality and have a sense of humor.

I am a clown, just without the painted smile.

Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face.

When you go onstage, you go on there to have a good time, and you smile and you engage with the audience and you invite them in.

What I enjoy most about performing is making people happy. Just to make a person smile means more to me than anything.

It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

People need the court jester, so I keep that smile on and keep going out there to do what I do.

To me a lot of electronic music out there is too serious. I'm a bit fed up with DJs who take themselves too seriously and don't smile.

I've always wanted to entertain people, or make them smile, or tell a joke that would make them laugh. I don't think there was this deep down burning passion to be an actor.

It's my responsibility to walk around the hotel with a big smile on my face and not worry about what's happened in the last game.

It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.