1288 Performance Quotes for You to Enjoy

To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance. Keith Richards

I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance. Kelli White

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I love stage actors. There's something special about all people who have to do a performance eight shows a week, and musical people, especially, are so much fun. Kelly Bishop

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A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed. Kelly Jones

I've been in a poor physical shape many times in my career and I've had some of my best results. My best performances happened because my mind was in the right place. The mind is definitely stronger than the body. Kelly Slater

My metaphor for translation has always been that translation is really a performance art. You take the original and try to perform it, really, in a different medium. Part of that is about interpretation and what you think the author's voice really is. Ken Liu

When I act as a translator, I am really doing a performance for my fellow Anglophone readers in the West. Ken Liu

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Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. What works in one doesn't work in the other, and you have to be looking for the truth of the performance, whatever way that medium might demand. Kenneth Branagh

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There was a strong focus on performance and respect for people. And one of the points that my father always made was that with all the challenges and obstacles and barriers, the one thing you can control is your performance. And that is one thing I have tried to adhere to throughout my career. Kenneth Chenault

If you swap it about, do television, theatre, film, you can go on surprising yourself. The problem is you get employed to do something you've already done. They want something from that sheep pen of performances they've seen you do. Kenneth Cranham

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You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often, but it will happen. It's like sculpting: you keep refining. When you have a piece that is yours, that is just you, that becomes obsessive; you think about it all the time. Kenneth Cranham

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Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well? Kenneth Rexroth

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We have a very physical performance art. A lot of times, when you want to achieve a certain emotion, you have to use professional wrestling ingredients, which are moves or a sequence of moves. Kenny Omega

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I mean, there's definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. But at the same time, it's just performing. No matter what, it's performing. Kenny Wormald

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The big difference between TV and theater is that you get to do a new play every week, so it's quite challenging, but it keeps you fresh. There's never any fear of getting stale in your performance. Kevin Chamberlin

When you're acting and directing, you're standing there acting with another actor, and you're trying to do your performance, and at the same time you're watching their performance, and making sure the lights are in the right place, and if the person is wearing the right wardrobe. All these things are going on in your head. Kevin Heffernan

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You can feel how the audiences react. For us, it's about the performance and the reaction. We feed off the energy. And no matter how enthusiastic they are, we can tell if we're playing well or not. Kevin Jonas

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You can get good performances in quite sizable roles from people who have never been in front of a camera, people who maybe have never been in front of a movie theater. Kevin Macdonald

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Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance. Kim Yuna

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People expect that I'll be just perfect on ice, and that's not the case. I make mistakes, too. When I review my performance, sometimes I feel I did awful. That's the whole part of the process of what people see when I'm performing. Kim Yuna

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