Quotes About Performance

I know something about performing. I know that when it seems like the avalanche is about to roll over you, you face into it and keep both arms swimming as hard as you can. You smile and you sell it.

I like to smile a lot before going in the car. I make jokes, even on the grid, and then I can still manage to focus when it counts.

Dignified in what she does, when she sings the smile that she brings to all of you unaware of what's to come, I said tell me what's to come.

I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.

En otras palabras, la consiste en transformar la humana de algo en una , y en hacer responsables a los actores de la realización de esta tarea y de las consecuencias (así como los efectos colaterales) de su desempeño.

A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.

He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

They have come across an aspect of product performance about a brand that is startlingly impressive: that a Land Rover is designed to be able to drive 4,000 miles continually off-road, for example; that the airline I flew in on this morning had a masseuse on the plane that gave me a neck massage when I woke up; or that an ice cream that was forced upon me last night contained preposterously large chunks of Toffee Chocolate Fudge.

So I sang the first Italian song that came into my head, which turned out to be "Volare." I'm sure I need not mention at this point that I am a rock star, and it sounded fantastic. J.Lo

Lawyers and attorneys, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.

Public services are never better performed, than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.

The best actors work the hardest but make it look easy. You have to master your nerves to do the job. You have to be willing to make a fool out of yourself. After a while, if you're smart and paying attention, bit by bit, line by line, you begin to understand how to interpret a character.

Nothing like the theater to bring out the claws and pepper in people.

It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it

Office civilisation could not be feasible without the hard take-offs and landings effected by coffee and alcohol.

I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that for me.

History nowadays is not a matter of conviction. It's a performance. It's entertainment. And if it isn't, make it so.

Audiences shouldn't be homogenous before one even starts; it's the performance, even of a reading, that should weld them into a unit.

Watching people behave is nothing special; watching them trying to behave is always fascinating.

Much comment on Mrs T.'s courage the next morning, when she arrives at the Conservative conference on the dot, but it's not difficult to appear calm and unruffled in such circumstances, as any actor could tell you. The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

By one estimate, U.S. output per worker hour was double Germany's and five times Japan's.

The peculiar things a singer did with words, the vowels that turned into other vowels under the strain of a high note, made it all harder and weirder. Picturing