I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver lining is that people did appreciate my work in those films. Had my performance gone unnoticed, I would've been in big trouble then.

When I'm on the pitch, I just want to give as good a performance as possible.

We love performing, we love touring.

When I was in high school, I was so in love - as I should have been - with the performance aspect of theater and just the literal act of performing.

When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.

I've been on shows where they're just setting it up, and they're trying to find the tone of the writing and performance. That's always a really chaotic period on shows.

I was a piano performance major at USC. I left before I graduated because I realized at some point I wasn't going to be a concert pianist and I was too attracted to popular music.

No actor wants to play someone else's performance.

I act for my fans. I expect them to enjoy my performance rather than starting fan clubs.

Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

I loved Suriya's performance in 'Vaaranam Aayiram'; his expressions in the movie, especially the train sequences, were really fresh.

I have always had a passion for competition and performance.

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.

The variable that really boosts your performance is the actors around you.

I don't know how we judge performance when you have 13 pass attempts to the other guy's 40.

When I came into politics, I remember reading these scorecards of my performance, and I would routinely have these comments about not being assertive enough.

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