Quotes About Performance

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do it. They begin with the end in mind.

As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.

The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

I'll bring what I bring to the tale, but it's good to know you have two guys with the experience and know-how in big games.

It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen, especially 60-feet high. As an actor, it is an uncomfortable experience.

I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

You want a showman, go see rock 'n' roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you watch The Doors.

I think theatres will always remain a sacred place where people go for something live and experience things live, which is very different than the experience of film.

I want to experience a performance on all levels - I want goose bumps and I want to leave the movie or play arguing about something that's unresolved.

I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.

The acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is so different from the experience of seeing it.

Art is all about the experience. I could say I dont really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, Blimey, look at that.