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Quotes About Performance

Actors die so loud.
~ Henry Miller
I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.
~ Henry Rollins
So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
~ Henry Rollins
I watched her perform on the Grammys and she totally sucked. The song 'All I Want to Do is Have Some Fun' sucks and when she walked out of that place with all those Grammies I knew I was going to give mine away. I did. If they're giving them away for crap, I don't want one in my place. What an insult to real music and musicians everywhere.
~ Henry Rollins
I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
~ Henry Rollins
I was listening to the radio the other day in California and one of our songs came on and I jumped because I couldn't find my microphone. Now that's damage.
~ Henry Rollins
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very quiet if only those birds sing there that sang best.
~ Henry Van Dyke
All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair.
~ Leo Tolstoy
To be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the expectations of those who knew her.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Throughout the performance Levin felt like a deaf person watching a dance. He was quite perplexed when the music stopped and felt very tired as a result of strained attention quite unrewarded.
~ Leo Tolstoy
All that day it seemed to her as though she were acting in a theater with actors cleverer than she, and that her bad acting was spoiling the whole performance.
~ Leo Tolstoy
All that day it seemed to her as though she were acting in a theater with actors cleverer than she, and that her bad acting was spoiling the whole performance. She had come with the intention of staying two days, if all went well. But in the evening, during the game, she made up her mind that she would go home next day.
~ Leo Tolstoy
a French dexterity combined with Italian acting.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I love a beautiful gown on stage, and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.
~ Leona Lewis
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
~ Leonard Bernstein
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
~ Leonard Bernstein
series of studies over the past seven years has demonstrated clearly and unambiguously that the more time your child spends playing video games, the less likely he is to do well in school—whether he is in elementary school, middle school, high school, or college. This
~ Leonard Sax
More kids are finding real sports too demanding.
~ Leonard Sax
I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
The curtain is going up.
~ Leonore Fleischer
The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.
~ LeRoy Neiman
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
~ Les Baxter