Quotes About Performance

He might himself be putting on a superb act, following the performance by logic alone and with his own strange emotions completely untouched, as an anthropologist might take part in some primitive rite. The fact that he uttered the appropriate sounds, and made the expected responses, really proved nothing at all.

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.

Ya sabe que el prestidigitador desmerece en cuanto explica su truco; si yo le muestro a usted una parte excesiva de mis métodos de trabajo llegará a la conclusión de que, a fin de cuentas, soy un personaje corriente.

What's it really like to always be the prettiest person in a room? Dos it mean you're always acting as if in a play, because no one stops looking at you?' 'Life is a play, isn't it?

It was difficult to tell if she actually had a good singing voice because she added so many flourishes and trills that she sounded like a bag of demented parakeets.

You know you're about as forthcoming as a mime.

Sometimes, on particularly good takes, I'm so moved that I stop "doing" the scene and just watch in awe at the miracle of good acting. As I said earlier, that's life up there. When it flows like that, that's when I say "Print.

But a comedian is naked. His only weapon was his wit.

We were down three goals by the end of the first period, something Coach Blair did not find amusing. "Three to nothing!" he shouted as we filed into the dressing room at the end of the period. "Three to nothing! This game is worth four points and all of you are skating like ballerinas out there!

Only 16 years old, this was his first game with the Portland Winter Hawks. In fact, it was his first game in the Western Hockey League. I knew it. The fans knew it. The media knew it. Everyone knew it. Half the reason the stands were so full was because of Riley Judd, superstar.

As a fourth-line winger, I'm nearly invisible. Sure, Coach Estleman knows my name. It's Tyler Watson. He understands my style of play. He knows what to expect from me on the ice. Other than that, I tend to fade into the background for him.

The clapping got louder. Sweat ran down my ribs from my armpits. This was a lot scarier than going into sudden-death overtime in a crowded arena.

Nunca dominaremos completamente a natureza, e nosso organismo, ele mesmo parte dessa natureza, será sempre uma construção transitória, limitada em adequação e desemprenho.

Certain inadequacies in our psychic performance and certain actions performed apparently unintentionally prove, when methods of psychoanalytical investigation are applied to them, to be well motivated and determined by factors of which the conscious mind is unaware.

In reality the ego is like the clown in the circus, who is always putting in his oar to make the audience think that whatever happens is his doing.

It's like there are two worlds in Drama Club. The world onstage and the world backstage. It reminds me of how I feel all the time.

I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there.

Die Armee ist ein zu gefährlicher Ort für Theaterkritiker. - Macro

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

El virtuosismo en todo arte consiste en la capacidad de salirse de sí mismo

Say, I swear the best Messiah in the whole show is this darky, Father Divine.

you know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick and if I show too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all. -Sherlock Holmes

In honor of my goddaughter's christening, I will perform 'The Real Slim Shady,' by Eminem," he says confidently.