Quotes About Performance

I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.

As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything.

There is no better education than rap battling in terms of performance. It makes you fearless.

The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty.

Good teaching is l/4th preparation and 3/4ths theatre.

If you are an expressive player, people can feel that. It is an emotional thing and becomes an extension of yourself.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.

To me, it's never about the trick. I don't care about how something works. I care about how people feel when they watch it. You know, that - that connection - that emotional connection is true magic.

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.

There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

I think dancing is an emotional experience.

Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

A one woman cabaret of emotional impressionism

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

There are three different kinds of scripting: functional, informational and emotional.

I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.