Good performance is about what you take in, not what you put out.
I've learned to never expect or require performances that exceed the player's ability. If they just equal their ability, that's what you want.
When your image improves, your performance improves.
I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!
Great individuals and great performances build a team, which produces brilliant performances.
Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.
Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.
It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.
All promise outruns performance.
A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.
I make 50 cents for showing up. . . and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.
I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.
I got to focus on my performance - learning how to perform is something I've been working on both personally and professionally.
Even as a fan, as someone who's into his performances, the Stooges and his own stuff, Iggy [Pop] is one of the people who kept underlining something that a lot of my older musician friends with punk roots say: you get into this space in your life where you feel like a weirdo, you're marginalised, you don't fit in. . . and then you can get up on stage in front of people who probably hate you.
Performances will determine who actually ends up being the eighth-inning guy.
I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.
Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve.
I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.
I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.
Having done Spaced, I can't even remember it being that difficult on Spaced, but we know what the end's going to be like. We know why we're putting in this amount of work, or why a shot might be particularly tricky, because we know that what we do is create a whole package. It's the writing, the performances, and the style of camerawork, that's what we're working toward, and we're prepared for that.