I’m the type who’d rather not work than work on something I’m not into. I’ve done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance. – Winona Ryder
The thing about performance, even if it’s only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities. – Sydney Smith
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance. – William Ralph Inge
Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they’re treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children. – Wallace Shawn
I had been nominated for an Academy Award for my performance as Sandy Lester, Dustin Hoffman’s neurotic, struggling actress girlfriend, in ‘Tootsie.’ Under Sydney Pollack’s direction, ‘Tootsie’ had been a runaway hit starring Dustin as an unemployed actor who pretends to be a woman in order to land a role in a soap opera. – Teri Garr
I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical. – Sean Astin
A play is not a play until it’s performed, and unless it’s a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance. – Terry Teachout
The ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance. – Travis Bradberry
A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both. – Shreya Ghoshal
Right before I go on stage, I’m absolutely terrified. My mind darts at many directions, but the center of me is going forward into the performance. – Sarah Brightman
I don’t blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them? – Sri Chinmoy
I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that’s the most fun. – Steven Soderbergh
I just try to touch people’s hearts in a way through skating, so they’re not just witnessing a performance, they’re feeling a performance and they’re a part of it. – Scott Hamilton
It’s such a performance to bring stuff into America. It’s a great luxury when I am in England. – Terence Stamp
Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms – and we can keep them there. – Scott Walker
There’s a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it’s rated highly, but I don’t think that accurately reflects Japan’s economic performance. – Yoshihiko Noda
Executives must place a priority on wellbeing if they want to attract the right people, keep their best people, and drive their company’s financial performance. – Tom Rath
Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don’t get a chance to rehearse. – Wayne Rogers
A big fear of working with an actor that’s never been a lead in a film before is that you’re going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her. – Sean Durkin
What is true of ballet is no less true of the other lively arts. Change is built into their natures. You watch a performance, and then… it’s gone. – Terry Teachout
I don’t think that the status of a show, big or small, should affect a person’s performance. – Sophie Turner
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment. – William Jennings Bryan
With me, even if my life depended on it, I wouldn’t be able to cry. Not with somebody there. Because even if I’m talking about bad and upsetting things, if there is somebody else in the room, I am trying to entertain them. If there is somebody there, I am in performance mode. I can only cry if I am on my own. – Sophie Hannah
The word ‘theatrical’ makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural. – Zola Jesus
The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine. – Will Wright
So, sometimes, when I’m not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English. – Sophie Marceau