Quotes About Performance

When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It's obviously dress up and theatre.

It is literally painful to watch Rick Perry as a candidate.

Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.

I persist in performing.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

'Billy on the Street' is a persona. It's crafted; it has writers. It's a mixture of performance art and comedy.

I definitely have a stage persona. I don't walk around scowling at people too often.

Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.

It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.

I'm a lot more focused on character development and showing more of my character's emotions and persona inside the ring rather than just going move after move after move.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

I believe the best persona to be onstage is the one that comes naturally.

So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona.

It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.

It's easier to see in someone else, another actor, how they kind of disappear and then this other persona appears. A great actor is a thing of mystery.

I play characters. I don't think I really have a persona per se. I don't play the same guy every time. I show up, you don't know what I'm gonna do. I like it that way. I've intentionally tried to do it that way. I think that's what's interesting.

Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.

When I'm in public doing the glamorous-wife-of-rock-star persona, I don't want to disappoint, but when I act, I really like to leave all that behind.

I think there's a responsibility to any character that you play that was a living persona.

If a comic is himself, there'll be things he can't do - because he has to adhere to that persona.

I think it would be really brutal to put on a persona and get famous for that persona. Like, 'I'm number one, I'm the best!' because that sounds like a lot of pressure.

I would say I locked into my persona pretty early; I wouldn't say it's how I am naturally, but it's how I am naturally when I'm on a stage in front of people. That anxiety makes me be the character that I am.

When my first show was on MTV, and it was this outrageous persona, I think people certainly didn't know what to think. But it was a performance. I'm sure people didn't know that it was a performance; they thought maybe I was just nuts, but that was all intentional.

What is life, except an ongoing instinct for survival? Nature uses that instinct to make us perform; otherwise we would all relax, and the species would disappear. Nature is a cruel green mother. The survival instinct is a goad, not a privilege.