The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
Harrison Ford

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
Billy Joel

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

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
Edward Gibbon

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.
Don King

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

People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!
Deborah Bull

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

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

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
Bela Lugosi

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
Bela Lugosi

Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.
Steve Ballmer

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
Frank Shorter

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