Quotes About Performance

Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one.

I wasn't always totally interested solely in music as a sort of visceral expression of people in unison and synchronized, a federated expression of a group of people. I loved it as a wallflower, as a fan, but when I was in it, I always felt like I wasn't built for it.

I've done so much theater, and yet I never had an experience like 'The Normal Heart.' We could feel the reaction of the audience every night. It was visceral.

You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.

Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.

It's different for people who have not seen a symphony conductor conduct from a chair. I feel very connected to the orchestra in a way that a conductor sometimes does not feel. I think it's more visceral.

A musical, in its true form, is where emotions reach a height where true spoken word cannot be enough, and you must sing. That's all it is. It's not posh; it's not out of your reach. It's the most visceral way to tell a story.

As an actor, when you're winning the moment over, there's a truth to your intention. You might laugh at it or you might cry at it, but I think your visceral reaction to it is a reaction to the truth of the moment.

Theater's wonderful because it's visceral, and it's happening in front of you, but you never get that close. So the close-up is a great privilege of film.

Flamenco is the most honest and visceral music. You have to be sincere when you sing it. If you're not, it doesn't work.

People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.

I know that one's visibility is very high on television, even with an unsuccessful show! With a successful role, it's even higher.

The more playoff games and Super Bowls and things of that nature that you're in obviously is going to build your portfolio and raise your visibility.

Appearing at TNA for the first time was extremely important to me due to the high visibility.

On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

Being an actor, in my case, any failure or success is extremely visible to a whole nation of movie-watchers.

There has to be a level of entertainment. But the trophy cabinet is something that is more visible.

The small teams are playing well. That's visible, and it has had an impact on German football.

The better the acting is, the less visible the director and the less visible the actor.

Forwards make the most visible moves as they score goals.

If you are visible in the whole film, but there is no depth in your role, then the role is not significant.

My job as an actor is to be visible and to tell stories.

What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises.