The Parent Trap wouldn’t have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.
Performance matters because games are built on great performance, but form factor and energy efficiency matter incredibly because they want to build something that’s portable and transformable.
Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.
But I can’t say that I didn’t like John Hammond’s performances often better than the originals.
Diversity requires commitment. Achieving the superior performance diversity can produce needs further action – most notably, a commitment to develop a culture of inclusion. People do not just need to be different, they need to be fully involved and feel their voices are heard.
You have to worry about your own performances before you think about everyone else.
Most of my ideas are based on the latest research on productivity, performance and mental mastery – that’s why so many iconic companies bring me in to help them grow and win.
I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.
The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.
I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.
The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
If someone really takes a risk, it doesn’t get dismissed. That’s what happened when the Oscar was won posthumously by Heath Ledger, who did one of the definitive villain performances of all time. But it really has to be exceptional in defining everything we previously knew about the actress or the actor.
I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.
Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don’t want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.
In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.
Even if you do a great performance, if you have a weak link in the film, that’s all anyone remembers.
Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
At times, you are mentally but not physically prepared; at times, you are physically but not mentally prepared. I would be lying if I said it doesn’t affect your performance. But the sooner you get over it, the better. So you discipline yourself. That is why fitness counts.
Many gays have a good sense of humour and they like the wit I hopefully put into my performances.
I think casting is everything. You get a great cast and – certainly, as happens in ‘The Hour’ – so many of those performances on the page were transformed by those actors who took those parts and made it into something completely different.
Modern day wrestlers are fans of the performance of wrestling instead of the concept of wrestling.
There’s nothing like a play. It’s so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
Positive attitude plus effort equals performance.
They got a great performance from me. I was happy.
I’m not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That’s going to take another 100 performances.
A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling me back, and I’m going to keep going back as long as it calls me. I really think it has something to do with the good vibes that I feel I’ve spread through my performance and through the time that I’ve spent with fans.
Once you’re in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, ‘Aha!’ and ‘Tada’ at the end of the numbers; but it’s a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.
I watched season four of ‘The Wire.’ They have subtle performances that they do through their eyes. You could watch season four with the audio off and still understand what’s happening through their eyes.
Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
I’m worried because of my mother, she’s going to see my performance and she’s quite hard. She’s going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they’re going to see me like a woman, you know?
Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages of the book. That doesn’t happen with a play. Even performances are different every night.
Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.
EPA’s Affordable Clean Energy rule (ACE), would restore the states’ proper role under the Clean Air Act and our system of federalism. Our plan would allow states to establish standards of performance that meet EPA emissions guidelines.
I love live performance and have huge admiration for people who can really do it. It’s the same with music: I’ll play a record and think that I’m not really into country or ragga. But, if it’s live and the musicians are good, I’ll listen to pretty much anything.
Every film that comes out that incorporates CGI or performance capture is a little bit ahead of the last film that came out. You’re on the cutting edge for a certain amount of time, and then the new technology comes out.
The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.
I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.
If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.
Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.
I play the leading lady in Arjun Rampal’s latest production, ‘Daddy’. It’s a very bold, performance-oriented role, and the team had originally cast someone else. However, when Arjun saw my performance in ‘Kaaka Muttai,’ he roped me in.
I was very young when ‘The Carol Burnett Show’ came out, but that kind of comedy and the spontaneity of her, I think it really deeply affected me within just the joy of performance.
I came back to Philips and quickly realised that the TV business had a major performance issue and some structural challenges. Rather than try to tweak it and sit things out, we said we had to go for a structural solution.
The president’s poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn’t disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.
It doesn’t do to eat too much before a performance.
Working with Brock Lesnar is a daily challenge because every Monday night that we’re on television, I feel compelled to deliver, at least from my end, the best performance I’ve ever put on.
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.
I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music.
There are all sorts of reasons why I don’t do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I’ve given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It’s like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.
When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.
