If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.
Mary Lou Retton

I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson!
Michael Welch

We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved.
Chuck Grassley

Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.
Richard Lugar

With NOAH, you can create some stunning, yet original soundscapes. Therefore, as a performance tool, it really comes into its own because you can make one single performance which has a lot of detail.
Geoff Downes

People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.
Marvin Bower

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.
Andy Grove

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.
Robert Moog

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on.
James Marsters

For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.
Ron Moody

One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
Manfred Mann

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.
Jeremy Piven

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.
Cyril Cusack

It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.
Richard McCabe

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.
Alan Bates

A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.
Melvin Belli

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.
Anne Dudley

So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.
David Gower

Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.
Wayne Rogers

The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.
Alan Parsons