Quotes About Performance

The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.

Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.

The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant to the audience. And of course, the audience is a servant to the higher art.

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.

I get tired of singing to the guys I beat up in motion pictures.

I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.

Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

Cars for me are like a piece of art.

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

We need more drag king role models for all those interested in the art

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

A lot of times your best sales rep, that A++ player, kills it on a regular basis...but can never describe how they do it. They look at sales as an art, not a science.

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money.

I enjoy doing martial arts films, but I like the straight stuff, too. I'd like to go back and do some Shakespeare, and maybe knock out a play or two. It's all about keeping balance.

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.