Quotes About Performance

The quaver in his voice was less showmanship than he would have wanted it to be.

I see a lot of people who are addicted to learning. What they need is a healthy dose of doing!

That Sunday, from six o'clock in the evening, it was a Viennese orchestra that played.

Honesty is nothing more than a party trick, and you know how much I love to dance.

conducting in a church in London where, he said,

9Among the many lessons that merge from the geologic record, perhaps the most sobering is that in life, as in mutual funds, past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Among the many lessons that merge from the geologic record, perhaps the most sobering is that in life, as in mutual funds, past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

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.

man's function is not just to think—which Aristotle admits to be the highest of all human activities—but also to do.

Only that which is done

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

La vie est la farce à mener par tous.

We all act parts, and wise is he who knows it.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides!

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

I only know two kinds of audiences - one coughing, and one not coughing.

The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides.

En aquel entonces, además de los bailes de salón que le servían para ganarse la vida —tango, foxtrot, boston—, dominaba como nadie el arte de crear fuegos artificiales con las palabras y dibujar melancólicos paisajes con los silencios.

This man," they complained, "performs none of the three duties132 required of the monks of this monastery. He has no right to enjoy the food and alms offered in religion to the Sa?gha. We must drive him away!

My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.