Quotes About Performance

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

Actor-manager - one to whom the part is greater than the whole.

The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.

On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; then I go home alone.

Playing Shakespeare is very tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're a king.

As an actor, he should be an extra in police line-ups.

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters but telegrams.

The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.

The play's the thing.

I was nervous and confident at the same time, nervous about going out there in front of all of those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.

The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

After an eight-hour day, workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

Anytime you play golf for whatever you've got, that's pressure. I'd like to see H.L. Hunt go out there and play for $3 billion.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

When I come into a game in the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, no one out and a one-run lead ... it takes people off my mind.

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.