Quotes About Performance

Let me play the lion too: I will roar that I will do any man's heart good to hear me. I will roar that I will make the duke say 'Let him roar again, let him roar again.

I am settled, and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show: False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.

Nay! Faith, let me not play a woman! I have a beard coming!

I think, said antonio , that the world is astage. Everybody has a part to play , and my part is sad part .

And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

What you do Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet. I'ld have you do it ever: when you sing, I'ld have you buy and sell so, so give alms, Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that; move still, still so, And own no other function: each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deed, That all your acts are queens.

He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.

do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me.

great while ago the world began,      With hey-ho, the wind and the rain;   But that's all one, our play is done,      And we'll strive to please you every day.     Exit

I will play the swan. And die in music.

I can say little more than I have studied, and that question's out of my part.

Action is eloquence.

Tis a very excellent piece of work, madam lady. Would 'twere done.

life is like theater

We strut and fret our hour upon the stage and then are no more.

And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villanous and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.

Tis ten to one this play can never please All that are here. Some come to take their ease And sleep an act or two; but those, we fear, W' have frighted with our trumpets.

Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes and unprovokes. It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore

The whole world - theater, and the people in it - the actors

In debate, especially when the dispute is hot and supercharged and freighted with ill will, I have always been the flabbiest of contenders. My voice breaks, becomes shrill; I sweat. I get a sloppy half-grin on my face. Worse, my mind wanders and then takes flight while the logic I possess in fair measure under more placid circumstances abandons my brain like an ungrateful urchin.

Did I behave myself tonight, Ross?' she asked. 'Did I behave as Mrs Poldark should behave?' 'You misbehaved monstrously,' he said, 'and were a triumph.

If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole-axed