Quotes About Performance

The fact that mirror neurons are activated when you hear and see a performance only reinforces why hearing live music is such a great idea. What kind of practice could be more enjoyable than kicking back and watching master musicians perform? I

You have to be careful about practicing, because we start to practice practicing. We need to practice performing.

Focus on mastering the music as deeply as you can, and worry less—or not at all if it's possible—about impressing others

I'm singing for the love of it, have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

I never practice. I always play.

In an interview with Charlie Parker, another jazz saxophone legend, Paul Desmond, asked Parker if his fantastic ability came as a result of practice, or from performing a lot. Parker said, I can't see where there's anything fantastic about it at all. I put quite a bit of study into the horn, that's true…. I used to put in at least from 11 to 15 hours a day…over three or four years.[1]

Maybe attorneys attend schools where grades are based on how many word you put out.

As Andrew stood before his students he felt the nerves that rack any amateur hypocrite.

They all behaved as if they were absolutely disgusted by this, and amid the ribbing and hilarity that this elaborate performance of disgust and envy produced they were able to hide their true feelings of disgust and envy.

I never go to the theatre. I'm just not interested in going to it. I'm interested only in doing it.

But it might not be good enough. It felt like the bar was extremely high and the possible loss was large. I felt under pressure constantly to prove something. I felt that people constantly look at you and decide whether you're good enough.

Well, with luck we'll miss the beginning of the performance.

The short, fat fingers moved like dancing sausages across the strings;

I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have a pretty good sense of comic thing, so I'd really like to try that.

Sure, equal pay, maternity leaves, and pro sports are important. But a girl can't make a free throw from the foul line if her head's not in the game.

I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies.

You can't trust actors.

The first time I was nominated, I didn't know anything about the Oscars. That was almost 15 years ago. I just did Oscar week and enjoyed it very much because I was with my mum. Even so, each time it's happened I've come down with some ghastly infection. It is overwhelming for people. It has nothing to do really at all with your performance. It comes down to if you get an Oscar for your film, then the revenue for your film goes up. They mean a great deal. I can't deny it.

For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.

The beauty of voice-over work is that maybe you come in and record once every two weeks for a couple of hours and do a couple episodes a session. It's awesome! You spend an afternoon playing in the booth, and there you have it. It doesn't interfere with much.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.