Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
F. Murray Abraham

The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance.
Shelley Berman

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.
Shelley Berman

Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.
Shelley Berman

We all have levels of performance.
Angela Lansbury

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
Sydney Smith

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.
Gwyneth Paltrow

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.
Gwyneth Paltrow

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.
Martin Van Buren

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.
Franz Liszt

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.
Jerry Hall

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?
Monica Bellucci

My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.
Chris Brown

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
William Jennings Bryan

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
David Herbert Lawrence

I like the energy of live performance.
Sandra Bernhard

So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see.
Alice Cooper

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.
Harold S. Geneen

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen