#performance

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#already #beat #boast #cannot #come

An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance. ↗

— Curt Gowdy

#good #only #performance #yesterday

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? ↗

— Eva Green

#dad #going #hard #i #know

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#captures #different #different ways #it is what it is #manipulate

I try to get the best performance an actor can give. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#best #get #give #i #performance

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#devil #incredible #look #performance #walter

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

#hearts #i #just #part #people

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#depends #develop #early #enables #finish

Heath Ledger's performance in 'The Dark Knight' quite simply changed the game. He raised the bar not just for actors in superhero films, but young actors everywhere; for me. His performance was dark, anarchic, dizzying, free, and totally, thrillingly, dangerous. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#bar #changed #dangerous #dark #dizzying

I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward. ↗

— Judy Holliday

#before #being #cry #every #hated