Quotes About Performance

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move.

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.

Teaching is a performance art.

It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

Since I do seven different styles of martial arts, I don't foresee myself fighting the same in any two movies. I think every fighting style should fit the character that's doing the fighting.

Art is basically entertainment.

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it.

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.

I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

In order to play musically you have to learn the art of exaggerating.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

There's art on the show that's really bad - these cliché Abstract Expressionist gestural things. It's almost like extensions of my performance, because in the scene I'm really mad.