Quotes About Performance

My mother came to see me in a play when I was a student, and afterwards, I asked her what she thought. She said, 'Honest opinion? No.'

I learned physical comedy to a degree that most child actors never will. I really just became a student of it - became obsessed with it, to be quite honest.

I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.

But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.

The No Child Left Behind Act will be one of President Bush's enduring legacies. And it was engineered and inaugurated with a truly bipartisan coalition in Congress. Accountability, standards, and truly measuring student performance just makes sense. The only real debate about the law was and is whether or not it was adequately funded.

I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

I was a student of Stella Adler and then later Lee Strasberg, and they were into sensory work. At its best, acting is not about words - even when the words are important.

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.

'We Will Rock You' is one of my favorite shows. I first saw it when I was a student at the Royal Academy and loved it.

It is striking to see the magnitude of impact mentorship and tutoring can have on student performance and young lives.

The Chinese Student Association at Cornell put together their own play. It was all Asian people in the cast except for me, because they wanted to do a couple of scenes about an interracial relationship. I was the only non-Asian person on stage; the entire audience was Asian apart from my 10 friends that showed up.

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'

I noticed that when it came time to improvise, my students would often make mistakes.

When any artist performs for students, it automatically means they are getting a young crowd.

Students of Bharatanatyam or any other dance form, for that matter, are artistes first.

Where I teach students in drama school, there's a course called Dramatics. In this course, all students must put on a play. However, acting majors are not supposed to act. They can write the play, for example, and the writers may work on stage art. Likewise, stage art majors may become actors, and in this way you put on a show.

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

I went to Elon University and studied musical theater. I usually did two musicals a year, but I also did a couple of plays. That was sort of always where I felt the most relaxation.

My favourite actor is Daniel Day Lewis. He's the finest actor in Hollywood. I've studied his performances.

I actually studied with The Groundlings.

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.