Quotes About Performance

you are brought face to face with the great question about the soccer coach: Does he really matter? It turns out that coaches or managers (call them what you like) simply don't make that much difference.

Alexandra was tall and blond, with a balcony you could do Shakespeare from.

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!

Feelings can't be a part of this game.

Polypro wicks away the sweat. Cotton absorbs it. Ergo, cotton is for suckers

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

If I cannot sing a work, I cannot conduct it.

Here are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesnt give a damn what goes on in between.

It is said that in one rehearsal he was unsatisfied with the performance of a female cello soloist, and so said to her "Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands, and all you can do is scratch it!".

(To a lady cellist) Madame, you have between your legs the most beautiful instrument known to man, and all you can do is scratch it !

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

My lute, awake! perform the lastLabor that thou and I shall waste,And end that I have now begun;For when this song is sung and past,My lute, be still, for I have done.

The House of Peers, throughout the war,Did nothing in particular,And did it very well.

I am the Captain of the Pinafore;And a right good captain too!

When love congeals It soon reveals The faint aroma of performing seals, The double-crossing of a pair of heels. I wish I were in love again!

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.

Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.

I love to dance.I've been told I'm actually really good.

I love to work this way - I love the time of preparation. If you feed yourself with all the information and you get to understand who the character is then you can really be her.

I love to be in front of big galleries