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I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress.

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

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.

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.

I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them.

When you're buying real growth and want real performance, you buy excellent management and good products and you diversify across industry sectors.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.