#performance

The only thing you owe the public is a good performance. ↗

— Humphrey Bogart

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I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance. ↗

— Ken Burns

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You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

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Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience. ↗

— Marc Davis

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Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly. ↗

— Harold Stephen Black

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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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I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully. ↗

— Jo Brand

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I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive. ↗

— Jane Byrne

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I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance. ↗

— Jon Favreau

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We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance. ↗

— John Cale

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