Quotes About Performance

I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.

I feel like I'm one of the best strikers in MMA. I just need the time to prove it. You haven't really seen my full potential yet.

As an actor, when you're doing comedies, you're around fantastic, funny people and you hopefully have a really good time doing it.

Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.

It really took me a long time to become comfortable as a performer. I think I'm finally starting to enjoy playing live.

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

It is hard to find something where you can go off as much as I do in stand-up, but I think stand-up allows me that freedom where you can really go off and have a good time.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God that'd be a boring career.

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

I have to tell you, and I don't mean this as sour grapes or anything, but it is hard to play for fans who see you all the time, makes it much harder.

Tm worried about my tests.

Three quarters of our intellectual performances are no more than decorations upon a void; I wondered if that increasing vacuity was due to the lowering of intelligence or to moral decline; whatever the cause, mediocrity of mind was matched almost everywhere by shocking selfishness and dishonesty.

È acrobata come nei vecchi tempi era poetessa, perché la forma particolare dei suoi polmoni la obbliga a scegliersi un mestiere che stia tra cielo e terra.

As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn't seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.

Calvin says somewhere that each of us is an actor on a stage and God is the audience. That metaphor has always interested me, because it makes us artists of our behavior

Tehching Hsieh—for me, always a true master of performance art, and one who truly represents transformation. Tehching has made five performances in his life, each of them lasting for one year. He followed this with a thirteen-year plan, in which he made art without showing it. If you ask him what he's doing now, he will say he is doing life. And this, for me, is the ultimate proof of his mastery.

To a certain degree my idea was motivated by indignation. Performance material and images were constantly being stolen and put into the context of fashion, advertising, MTV, Hollywood films, theater, etc.: it was unprotected territory. I strongly felt that when anybody takes an idea of intellectual or artistic value from someone else, they should do so only with permission. To do otherwise is to commit piracy.

In The Invention of Literature (1999), the classical scholar Florence Dupont reminds us that many of the greatest works of human imagination were created to be performed, to be heard. Before the printing press and mass literacy, the written versions existed as blueprints or records of performances, recitals, speeches, songs, and other forms of oral communication. Voicing was an art of living creators, and the voice of the storyteller was

That's like bringing a guy up from the minors to pitch the World Series.

Do you know, by the way, that in show business the magician is considered to be completely without artistic talent?

It's a well-known fact. All women are clinically insane, but especially ballet dancers. Psycho. extremely psycho. Trust me.

On the original tour, Pink Floyd had only 35mm cine-projectors with which to beam an image a maximum of 80ft wide in the middle of the wall. Waters now had twenty-three projectors beaming images across the full width of the 240ft wall, and on to a circular screen behind the stage. It was a visual feast, with Gerald Scarfe's ghoulish animations now brought to life in eye-watering