Quotes About Performance

When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.

I was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action.

Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other.

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.

Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body.

What e'er thou art, act well thy part.

I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.

From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments.

It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.

True art awakens theExtraordinaryOvation

You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides.

A pianist is a painter of music

I am not an actress. I am a mistress of disguise. Acting happens to be one of the perks

A red nose is the clown's mask and my moustache is mine.

When I'm passionate about something I strive for excellence, judging whether or not I achieved it is up to the audience.

Dance is your words expressed with movement.

Dance is the language of artistic kinesis.