Quotes About Performance

My stage projection's a puppet; I could moon the crowd and the projectors would compensate and make it look like I'd bowed.

I have also made many sketches for larger auditorium complexes to be sited near shopping centers, offering continuous music programs with intermissions every twenty or twenty-five minutes, For example, you might have a certain number of players appearing for a month-long season and giving performances at 10am, 12 noon, 2pm, 4pm, and 6pm daily, then the next month you would have a different team, playing my music, and so on, permanently. I have described this in detail many times.

Most of the shows I do are held at the local playhouses," Wade explains as he reaches up to take an old man Muppet off the wall. He begins to play with it. "But the last one I did—my personal favorite—was held at a church not far from here. Called Equestrians for Christ, it was a modern-day reenactment of the crucifixion. Basically

There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.

My mother used to tell me that the best defense for anything is doing a good job" -Robin

When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - completely off the hook. - Scott Turner Schofield

I try something new every night. It's an hour show if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

Smile, look invested, and when you hand in certain projects, say you enjoyed working on them.

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

I'm so unprofessional on set it's not even funny.

I practiced writing in every possible way that I could. I wrote a pastiche of other people. Just as a pianist runs his scales for ten years before he gives his concert: because when he gives that concert, he can't be thinking of his fingering or of his hands, he has to be thinking of his interpretation. He's thinking of what he's trying to communicate.

We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.

And I hated how most of us had grown up together, so that we never had a chance to really change. We could try, but people just kept seeing an earlier version of us. We each had our own narrative, our own character we were required to perform in the daily play that was "St. Joan's Academy for Girls,

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven't. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it.

I've only ever wanted to be a singer I never wanted to be famous.

I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice.