Quotes tagged ‘Performance’

(42 total)

“There’s no such thing as a bad Laura Dern performance. Or even an average Laura Dern performance, for that matter.”

“Featuring the work of more than 50 artists, including household names like Andy Warhol, Richard Avedon and Robert Mapplethorpe, the exhibition asks us to consider the ways masculinity has been coded and performed both outside mainstream norms and within them.”

— Allyssia Alleyne, CNN, cnn.com

“Muñiz shared the stage with her mother and Shakira, joining a children's choir to sing 'Let's Get Loud' and soloing flawlessly on Lopez's cover of Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the U.S.A.'”

— Emma Specter, Vogue, vogue.com

“What's better than Lizzo performing her hit song 'Juice?' Well, Harry Styles performing with her, naturally.”

— Lisa Respers France, CNN, cnn.com

“I always wanted to become an astronaut, for the future of mankind and all. At least that’s what I always told myself. I see myself on the outside, smile, present a side. It’s a performance, with my eye on the exit. Always on the exit. Just don’t touch me.”

— James Gray, Ethan Gross, Roy McBride, Brad Pitt, imdb.com

“Do you ever feel like you're in a play? Except you're the only one that knows it's a play? And everyone is just playing the role they think they're supposed to play, because that's what you do? And you're like, 'Hey, this is just a play. We don't have to do this.' And maybe we shouldn't.”

— Kate Purdy, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Alma Winograd-Diaz, Rosa Salazar, imdb.com

“I'm not obsessed with sex. I just can't stop thinking about it. The performance of it. The awkwardness of it. The drama of it.”

— Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, imdb.com

“Talking on the radio is a performance. Even though it’s pretty raw, what I do, and I do open up, it’s still a performance.”

— Howard Stern, rollingstone.com

“James Bond: You didn't think I'd miss this performance, did you? [Bond kisses Kara passionately] Kara Milovy: Oh, James!”

— Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson, James Bond, Timothy Dalton, imdb.com

“Helga: I guess so! Except for that disgusting kiss. Ugh! Arnold: Then why'd you kiss me for so long?! Helga: It was just acting - I was trying to be professional! Don't think I actually enjoyed that! Ugh! Arnold: Whatever you say, Helga.”

— Steve Viksten, Joe Ansolabehere, Arnold (voice), Phillip Van Dyke, imdb.com

“It's the performance of your life. Don't fuck it up.”

— Courtney A. Kemp, imdb.com

“I believe to have a championship team you want to have a championship team in every area, whether that’s your starting quarterback, your strength coach, your medical staff, your area scouts, whatever it happens to be. We’re trying to work at a championship level of performance in every one of those…”

— Bill Belichick, espn.com

“Network providers use the Border Gateway Protocol to tell each other which networks they can reach and how many hops away they are. The end user ISP then, in most cases, takes the shortest route to reach the destination.”

— Janos Pasztor, pasztor.at

“I always perform live. I've even receive a cortisone injection when I was losing my voice before a big gig. I felt it the days following after the gig in my throat, but it was nice to know I didn't let anyone down. The show must go on.”

— Willam Belli, enkiquotes.com

“Until you have measured current performance and determined that current performance is inadequate, “faster” is a totally meaningless word.”

— Eno Compton, commandercoriander.net

“We are trying to see who can perform under those conditions.”

— Jim Brown, successories.com

“Every time fans turned on the television or watched the Dallas Cowboys, I wanted to give them the performance of a lifetime.”

— Emmitt Smith, profootballhof.com

“The way you perform make them feel about you different.”

— Emmitt Smith, walterfootball.com

“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.”

— Ted Williams, goodreads.com

“Videos start out blurry but then suddenly sharpen up — that is Netflix switching servers till it connects to the one that will give you the highest quality of video.”

— Mayukh Nair, medium.com