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They got a great performance from me. I was happy. -- Jimmy Fallon
Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures. -- Susan Strasberg
You worry just as much about great performance as you do about underperformance. -- Mary Callahan Erdoes
Everyone knows 'Smash' is about musical numbers, and everyone knows we have fantastic dance sequences and great performances. -- Raza Jaffrey
Have you seen McConaughey in 'Unsolved Mysteries?' Even back then, it's a great performance! And he's mowing the lawn. -- Cary Fukunaga
I think 'SNL' is so well-known for its musical performances, as well, and people really breaking into America through a really great performance on there. So I think me and Gotye are both really excited to be amongst such company. You know, it's great. -- Kimbra
We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven. -- Leonard Slatkin
To be happy is very important to do a great performance because you have to be comfortable; your mind has to be clear. -- Lyoto Machida
I'm inspired by good work. Whether it is a great performance by another actor, a piece of art, or someone doing something altruistic. -- Mateus Ward
I look up to Bernard Hopkins as a fighter. I'm honored to be his co-main event and to be able to give a great performance. -- Keith Thurman
If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions. -- Swami Vivekananda
Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years. -- Scott Aukerman
I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself. -- Idina Menzel
If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will experience the emotions, motivations, and perceptions necessary for great performance. -- Teresa Amabile
I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show. -- Beyonce Knowles
For example, the character of Claire in In Dreams wasn't imagined enough by me. Annette Bening is a great actress, and she gave a great performance, but because I hadn't fully written it essentially the character wasn't finished. -- Neil Jordan
Even though a screenplay is performed only once, unlike other forms of drama, it's still a performance in itself, and unless it's a great performance, odds are that actors will not come, and a movie will never be made. -- William Monahan
I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen. -- Tim Roth
Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance. -- Jackie Evancho
If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed energy and less fear. These great artists take me out of my life and make me want to go there. -- Elaine Stritch
Everyone has his own agenda, and it can overshadow the important thing, which is to capture a great performance. They listen to it and think, "Oh, I'm not mixed loud enough...I missed a note there...I'm a half-step off on the turnaround." -- Dick Latvala
I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all do together and how we collaborate together. A performance can be a collaboration in ways, but oftentimes it's one individual thing. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness. -- Arnold Palmer
Seeing babies and little children smile or even just be inquisitive about a bottle cap isnpires me. Watching a great performance, particularly live or in the moment. My favorite actor at the moment is the three-time Tony Award-winning Mark Rylance. Makes me work to be better. -- Graham Shiels
I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited. -- Olivia Thirlby
The fans get to see you, and you can do great by your record if you have a great performance or a great night there. That's all part of the business. But at their core, awards shows are not really a sincere thing. For a lot of years, the artists had to pay to play their own set. -- Jay-Z
I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen and I've been like, Wow, that was a really great performance. Because there are a lot of elements with film. It's not like stage. It's not a kind of performance art anymore; it's a highly tuned kind of collaboration - a symphony. -- Vincent Kartheiser
Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances. -- Vanessa Marano
I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances. -- Nancy Greene
I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances. -- Mel Brooks
We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there. -- Bobby Bonilla
It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England. -- Terence Stamp
People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers. -- Cate Blanchett
My wife, Barbara, is great. She arranges when I do work that I have a day off between performances. -- Don Rickles
When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling! -- Kailash Kher
That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances. -- Dick Button
The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances. -- Kevin Spacey
I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie. -- Jesse Eisenberg
Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance. -- Natalie Portman
I make films from the heart. I want to concentrate on the job of doing great and honest performances, and I'm gonna get better with every performance of mine, with every film of mine. -- John Abraham
The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance. -- Phil Jackson
Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance. -- Holger Czukay
Great achievement often happens when our backs are up against the wall. Pressure can actually enhance your performance. -- Robin Sharma
When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great! -- Matt Nathanson
The sign of a great player is not how much he scores, but how much he lifts his teammates performance -- Red Holzman
Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out -- Jerry West
I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice. -- Helen McCrory
I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of 'Performance' called 'The Entertainer' with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice. -- Helen McCrory
In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting. -- Marcus Buckingham
I think audiences sometimes mistakenly assume a quality performance comes from some great emotional disturbance rather than really intense concentration. Concentration and flow is what it's all about. -- Rivers Cuomo
It's great to do theater and have the live response and know what that can bring to a performance. I like to juggle as many mediums as I can. -- Rose McIver
My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson
Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment. -- Jonathan Demme
I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance. -- Sam Mendes

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