Quotes About Performance

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.

What-e're thou art, Act well thy part.

[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast.

Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.

I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.

Cheryl Ladd Special - One-hour long, one thought show of jigglevision.

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

I've had cameras on me since I started the art of fighting and I think that I'm used to having cameras on me in adrenaline-type situations.

I really think that martial arts and music are very close to each other and both require a lot of focus and improvisation because you don't know where or when you're going to get kicked!

I think there is an evolving art taking place on Broadway.

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

Burlesque is beautiful: It's art, it's fun, it's done with a lot of comedy - an awful lot of big wink-wink and nudge-nudge.

What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!

Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

I was always interested in dance as a creative art and traditionally dance is taught as an interpretive art.

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.

Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the live musician, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.