Quotes About Performance

When one's young, everything is a rehearsal. To be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.

Otro atributo importante que comparten los superjefes es la competitividad. Cuando nos fijamos en los superjefes, sentimos su sangre competitiva corriendo por sus venas. Ellos prosperan en ella, la buscan y la crean.

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

Star performers are very likely to attract sponsors, and loyal performers are very likely to keep them. But if they fail to distinguish themselves, these loyal performers run the risk of becoming permanent seconds, lieutenants who never make captain. To position themselves for the top job, protégés must therefore contribute something the leader prizes but may intrinsically lack:

Live Songs, he said, represented "a very confused and

Thirty-nine years later the spellbinding performance was released, along with Lerner's footage, on the CD/DVD Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970. A

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

Preparation is never time wasted. You cannot have great recitals, if you have poor rehearsals.

Je?li chcesz osi?gn?? doskona?e wyniki, potrzebujesz doskona?ego paliwa. Nie mo?esz tak po prostu nasika? do baku.

One of the acid tests of our integrity is whether or not we keep the commitments and promises we have made or whether there are loopholes in our word. We might appropriately ask: Do we live the honor code with exactness, or are there loopholes in our word—cracks in our foundation of integrity? Do we honor our commitments as home teachers and visiting teachers, or are there loopholes in our performance? In other words, is our word our bond?

The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings.

The humiliation of being in a poor play, of playing a shabby role, of appearing before disgruntled audiences, if any, of being curdled by hostile reviews, can outrage all human dignity. Being caught in a long-run success is almost as bad. The fearful monotony, the boredom of saying the same words every night, at the same minute, has unhinged the mind of more than one actress.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.

Once I achieved stardom, the whole apparatus of the theater palled on me.

I'm intoxicated by applause. It's my nectar.

Det var nye divaer som entret scenen nå: den gnistrende Callas fra Amerika, den majestetiske Joan Sutherland fra Australia, i tillegg til den forbløffende Kiri te Kanawa fra New Zealand, som akkurat hadde utgitt sin første plate etter et engasjement ved London Opera Center.

He who cannot dance says the stage is not ready

Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.

Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music.

I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that.

I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.

fake leather looks great until you use it in demanding situations, and then it shows its true colors and lets you down.

No hay nada más peligroso que un actor que no se dedica abiertamente a ser actor. Los tiranos más brillantes y malignos han sido estupendos charlatanes.