Quotes About Performance

If you expect more from yourself than from others, you are saying that you are better than others and therefore must perform at a superior level.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.

It wasn't obvious to my generation how or if one could become oneself, an individual, without performing what the psychoanalyst Louise Kaplan memorably called a "female-female impersonation.

you shouldn't give an audience what they want. Give them what you want. Most comics will go down to the audience level to make it work, when in fact what you should be doing is bringing the audience to your level.

When a singer sings, he acts out his feelings. Good comics don't simply tell jokes, they act them out with a very specific emotional attitude. Attitude is the heartbeat of an act. Material cannot be emotionally neutral. Your subject matter has to disgust you, pain you, thrill you, because audiences don't respond to words, they respond to feelings.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?

Was die Menschen täglich ihre Entscheidungen nennen, ist nichts weiter als ein gut einstudiertes Spiel.

Miss Wynter, I think you should be the evil queen," Harriet said. "There's an evil queen?" Daniel echoed. With obvious delight. "Of course," Harriet replied. "Every good play has an evil queen." Frances actually raised her hand. "And a un—" "Don't say it," Elizabeth growled. Frances crossed her eyes, put her knife to her forehead in an approximation of a horn, and neighed.

The Smythe-Smith musicale. Thankfully, it came around just once per year, because Hyacinth was quite certain it would take a full twelve months for her ears to recover.

It was going to be embarrassing regardless of what music they chose, but Honoria didn't have the heart to say it to her face. On the other hand, whichever piece they performed, they would surely butcher it past recognition. Could a difficult piece played badly be that much worse than a slightly less difficult piece played badly?

Why is everyone complaining?" Daisy asked impatiently. "This is exciting! We get to perform. Do you know how long I have been waiting for this day?" "Unfortunately, yes," Sarah said flatly. "About as long as I have been dreading it," Iris muttered.

I used to always brick. I used to always do like UCLA or Indiana late game, on the road, and I'll always miss.

I come from a government in Indiana where we did get things done.

Ballet is one form which I really want Indians to practice it.

Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be so much about me.

My job is to act, whether in indie or mainstream films.

You want every film that you make to do well, not just indie films in general.

I look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona.

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.

Football is a collective sport, but goalkeeping is an individual sport.