Quotes About Performance

It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.

I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.

I've got what my mother's got - however bloody you are feeling you can put on the most amazing show of happiness.

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

I loved performing every week, but all of the activities and amazing people we met when we were not filming stick out to me the most.

Josh [Gad] does such an amazing job playing a lovable idiot. Not many people can do that, as convincingly as he can.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

Your anger can be 49 percent and your comedy 51 percent, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 percent, the comedy is gone.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

I think sadness and anger are really fertile ground for comedy. No one is really interested in a happy person doing comedy.

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything

What are we (I ask) but puppets in a show-box? Oh, omnipotent Destiny, pull our strings gently! Dance us mercifully off our moserable little stage!

I did what you would probably have done in my place. I modestly declared myself to be quite unequal to the task imposed upon me—and I privately felt, all the time, that I was quite clever enough to perform it.

Think of me pretending to be a lawyer, and not knowing how to look low enough!

When a band of flute players attempted a musical concert at a triumph in 167, the audience forced the musicians to change their performance into a boxing match.15 In the widening middle classes commercialism

the most heroic symphony is a judicious combination of puffing, plucking, scraping, and beating.

We please others best-and best satisfy ourselves-only when we have done our own job fully and thus fulfilled our own potential.

Without Puccini, there is no opera; without opera, the world is an even drearier place than the evening news would have us think.

If he was, somehow at the margin deficient, it was because the country did not rise to ask of him the performance of a thunderbolt. He gave what he was asked to give. And he leaves us (or "will leave") if not exactly bereft, lonely; lonely for the quintessential American. END.

For me, and not only for me, surfing harbors this paradox: a desire to be alone with waves fused to an equal desire to be watched, to perform.

It worked okay.