Quotes About Artistry

My favourite performances are by actresses like Bette Davis in 'All About Eve' or Gena Rowlands in pretty much anything - performances that have nothing to do with age.

I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

I'm committed to an honest expression, not necessarily a performance.

I love actors; I love seeing great performances. I just love that, when I'm seeing a performance, that inside me, I just go, 'Oh my God, how are you doing that? Where is that coming from?' Where you see an actor do something, and I can't even locate it in my own body.

I owe so much of my musical growth to my exploration and performance of Carnatic music.

I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself.

They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers.

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.

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

I've always been interested in the arts and chucked a science degree to study theatre and performance art because I was so enamored by it.

'Malvolio' is the one show of mine that will not die. I've performed it more than 200 times all over the place.

I just keep it real, and I have written songs from my heart and performed them how they should be performed.

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

I always considered myself a performer. It's what God gave me. It doesn't matter if one person hears it or a million.

I'm not a natural born performer.

My experience for myself as a performer is not one of high expectations.

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.