Quotes About Performance

Originally the big argument was that they wanted to call it "raw and uncut" and I told them I had a problem with that. When you say "raw" it implies that my show is dirty and that's not the case.

Basketball isn't a game; It's an art form. You master the fundamentals so you can forget 'em, so you can improvise and just concentrate on what really matters: getting buckets.

Posing is a performing art.

If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of that art.

Wrestling is an art form. I don't worry about those who don't get it; I worry about satisfying those who do.

Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.

Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.