Quotes About Performance

Now see, with me, said Louie, tiring suddenly of his daughter's talk, with me I didn't need dance school, matter of fact I used to rule the dance floor!

She noticed the most important thing of all, which is the dance lesson within the performance.

Then they act and do things accordingly.

This is what I understood by it: that for Astaire the person in the film was not especially connected with him.

I live in dread of being asked to clap along to music in a public place.

Put simply, Hurston wrote well when she was comfortable, wrote poorly when she was not.

The others forgot the work and the weather watching them throw. It was art. A thousand dollars a throw in Madison Square Garden wouldn't have gotten any more breathless suspense. It would have just been more people holding in.

Officiating is trying to do your absolute best with what you've got.

I like small actors. They are my absolute favourite.

The point is that there are few opportunities in top games. For this you need a striker who has the absolute will to achieve the goal.

When you have seven to eight players performing game after game, you are on an absolute roll.

I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting.

I never really absorbed myself in a role like some actors do.

All theatre is absurd.

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

I just can't imagine having to do an accent all the time - like, in your whole career.

In 'Shirin Farhad' I play the character of a Parsi woman. Though I was born a Parsi, in a Parsi family, I don't have the right accent.

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

It's easier to act in your own accent.

It's a tough accent. It's difficult for actors who are not Kiwis.

Even if I know that people can hear my French accent, my goal is to provide the best English as possible when I act.

I can do accents really well.

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

I love playing characters with different accents. It's a lot of fun.