Quotes About Performance

I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.

I started doing martial arts when I was a kid. I don't often get that kind of role, although I get to do it periodically, which is a lot of fun for me.

Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.

I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.

Don't just stand there, let's get to it, Strike a pose, there's nothing to it...

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.

Do I suffer for my art? Well, I get a lot of flatulence when I'm nervous.

Ultimately I want my metal in a bar and not an art gallery.

They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience!

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.

Picture all the money that I've gotten off tours. Now picture me plotting for more.

The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.

Some audiences can shake and bang their heads on the stage to riffs all night long, but subtlety is an art that must be mastered if you're going to be remembered.

I usually never walk by a microphone.

Music is an immediate art; it's always happening right now.

I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is that you're struggling with, and hopefully turn it into art.