Quotes About Performance

To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.

I wouldn't say one is easier or more difficult, but when you're inside a costume and a mask, you have to endure heat - and, often, difficulty seeing. The vision is not very good in a mask. And you have to cope with that, as well as trying to think about this character.

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

Theatre taught me to convert a scene into a vision.

In Bollywood you are constantly singing someone else's feelings and someone else's vision.

It's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

She felt like a bad actress in a play she never wanted to be in.

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

All the world's a stage we're going through.

Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared.

Sha la la, man...

But in the science of physics, power means something different. Power describes how fast you use energy. For example, it takes the same amount of energy to walk across a football field as it does to run across a football field. But running is faster. Therefore, running has more power. This is the kind of power that makes things happen.

The human condition's like an audience whose members are always surprised when they're required to become actors.

Jazz is what I play for a living.

I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

als ge de roman vergelijkt met het Leven ziet ge dat het niet veel meer is dan lap-en-vliegwerk, en heeft het de meer dan frappante gelijkenis met de acrobatie van de clown die de koorddanser achternakomt, maar ginds in de hoge nok van het cirkus, al wankelend en al bewust gekke gebaren makend, eveneens plots kan uitglijden ...