Quotes About Performance

Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.

It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

The marathon is an art; the marathoner is an artist.

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

When I danced, I felt I was entering the temple of Art.