Quotes About Performance

If you take the riff from the song 'Cowboys From Hell' and really break it down, it's almost a hillbilly guitar riff: dekka dekka dekka dekka dekka dekka dekka dek.

English is my first language, but when I started shooting for 'Definition of Fear,' I actually had trouble with my lines! It was so weird, because I never have trouble with my lines in Hindi!

In 'Godha,' I was a Punjabi girl and had Hindi, English and Punjabi dialogues.

As an actor, I am only excited about doing good work - be it in mainstream Hindi cinema, Hollywood, a French film, or a Marathi movie.

People want to see me for at least two hours uninterrupted in a Hindi film.

In Hindi cinema, the cabaret dancers were eased out when the heroines imbibed their mannerisms. This could happen in Malayalam cinema too.

For some reason, all the best matadors were Fascists.

However, peace was restored when two clowns hurried on to the stage and began letting off crackers and making obscene jokes.

I didn't like the play, but than I saw it under adverse conditions – the curtain was up.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night

Honestly, I do not believe in a drunk Byron writing beautiful verses. Inspiration can pass through the soul just as easily in the midst of an orgy as in the silence of the woods, but when it is a question of giving form to your thoughts, whether you are secluded in your study or performing on the planks of a stage, you must be in total possession of yourself.

And we recall that at a parallel moment (the moment of greatest power in his performance), the contractor "let himself go in good earnest" and produced that memorable series of flourishes and tongue clickings. He didn't lose himself, or forget about his audience, or surrender to a feeling; sensing victory, he unleashed a higher-level arsenal of charming tricks. (He acted at his audience, rather than upon them.)

The contractor's performance was described in terms of what he could do, Yashka's in terms of what he caused his listeners to feel.

They will learn by heart, perceiving the elemental pulse of love implicit in that idiom; knowing that the 'amateur' is the lover (amatore) of that which he knows and performs.

If someone would have the goodness to inform me whether I am assisting at a tragedy or a farce I should be grateful

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It's a lot of pressure. Some of the cast wants a StairMaster on the set so you can work out like crazy before your naked scene.

I have to work out to look the best possible before the show.

I work out once a day. When I'm in a massive dance show mode, I'll probably be active for about 20 hours each week.

It's always difficult to work out on location, away from home, but that's the actor's life. You go where the work is.

Different actors have different rhythms. My goal as a director is to let these guys get their best work out.

You've got to internalize the character. You've got to learn the words. These are separate things, but they work together.

Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything.

I think it's important for artists to work together. It's great for fans to see, like, Ludacris came out to our show in Atlanta and kinda made a surprise appearance there, it shows a mutual respect for what each other does.