#performance

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety. ↗

— George Murray

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After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it. ↗

— Graham Nash

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I offer my performance as prayer for someone I've worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person. ↗

— Liam Neeson

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It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

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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

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

— Gwyneth Paltrow

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I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

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Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance. ↗

— Natalie Portman

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I'd like to think my performance is today. I never try to - it's so, as you know, watching me, I have a beginning, middle and ending. But every night the show changes and I relate to an audience and I relate to the young people. ↗

— Don Rickles

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