Quotes About Performance

Everything cannot be conveyed by ballet, only those things which can be shown on the stage.

There should not need to be a synopsis in the program. The movements and the music should express everything the audience needs to know.

It is the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician. If the illusion fails the ballet fails, no matter how well a program note tells the audience that it has succeeded.

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policemen, always alert, always tense, but see, policemen don't have to be beautiful at the same time.

I wonder if you'd like to do a little ballet with me. A polka, perhaps. For some elephants.

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time" *

Dancing is music made visible.

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policemen, always alert, always tense. But I dont agree with that because policemen don't have to look beautiful at the same time.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician

A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

I know that show business is my life. It always was and it always will be. Nothing holds my interest like show business, nothing excites me more. There's nothing I think or talk about as much. I would hate to have to live without show business. When I'm working, I'm happy.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

Age to me means nothing. I can't get old I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Say Goodnight Gracie.

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.

Another challenge? Getting up at 6:30 in the morning to go act. It's not fun acting that early in the morning or acting at 4 A.M in the middle of the night or in the morning when you're really tired. That's a challenge. What a luxurious problem to have.

Her style betrays a self-satisfied exaggeration of her aptitudes." (In reference to Vice President Harris)