Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?

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

Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.

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

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.

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.

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

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.

There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.

I always want to do things that are different. I don't want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them.

The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.