Quotes About Performance

I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.

You create the space and time in which performance is going to happen. You physically enter. And whatever happens in that frame is the part of the piece that you can't control. If earthquake come, if electricity stop, if somebody scream or have epileptic attack. If people vomit. Everything is a part of it. The only thing is to give yourself completely.

Theatre is fake ... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Because I did an event with Jay Z, she said I'd killed performance art. But who made these rules?

In the beginning, I was a painter, but the moment I stood in front of the public and expressed my ideas using my body as the object and subject of the work, immediately it was clear that this is my best medium. I struggled with acceptance; my early career was hell. But it took me all these years to create a foundation so that performance would become accepted in the same way as photography and video. You have to believe that you're right, even if everybody believes you are wrong.

It was a big base of my performance art ... the idea of here and now ... not something that's happening in the past or the future. It's always happening. It's always now.... Only what matters is the present.

Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that is invisible. You can't see it. You can't touch it. You just can feel it.

I'd always thought of art as something that was expressed through certain tools: painting, sculpture, photography, writing, film, music, architecture. And yes, performance. But this performance went beyond performance. This was life.

In the performer's body, you don't care how you look. It doesn't matter if you're old, fat, beautiful, or ugly. It doesn't change anything. The only thing is your charisma and how you express your idea.

Los ejercicios de respiración son muy importantes para ayudar a desprendernos de esas corazas emocionales que hemos desarrollado a lo largo de los años. Músicos y actores, antes de entrar en escena, se aseguran de disponer de unos minutos para hacer una serie de respiraciones profundas con el objetivo de conseguir mayor serenidad.

You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.

There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.

It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

Good intentions, talented players, everyone trying hard. Just bad casting.

Rather, I'm the kind of person who makes watercolors of sunsets in the summer while drinking cocktails on my roof, who reads a book a week and goes to French movies. My friends often cite my life as being an inspiration to them, and I have quite rigorously assembled something that looks really good from the outside. But that performance has always been a stark contrast to how I feel about myself.

My friends often cite my life as being an inspiration to them, and I have quite rigorously assembled something that looks really good from the outside. But that performance has always been a stark contrast to how I feel about myself. I had a gut feeling that Jean Nidetch knew all about that soul-killing mismatch.

I once had an artist in the old days who was so nervous he threw up during the gala opening of the show. The reviews read, 'artwork so bad, even the artist couldn't stomach it.' We

I was petrified of making a mistake—head-banging to the wrong song or not hard enough, or thinking a guitar solo was over when it wasn't. A rule of thumb is that if the guitar solo is by Led Zep or Lynyrd Skynyrd then it's not over. Ever.

All the while your brain is performing up to ten quadrillion calculations per second using only ten watts of power.5 A computer would require a gigawatt of power produced by a nuclear power plant to pull off the same performance.

the best brass bands and popular American and British singers the Philippines could imitate.

The secret impetus behind legalism is its competitiveness. The point is not just to win: it's to beat everyone else.

All other things being equal, you will generally live up or down to expectations.

Most traders have absolutely no concept of what it means to be a risk-taker in the way a successful trader thinks about risk. The best traders not only take the risk, they have also learned to accept and embrace that risk. There is a huge psychological gap between assuming you are a risk-taker because you put on trades and fully accepting the risks inherent in each trade. When you fully accept the risks, it will have profound implications on your bottom-line performance.