Quotes About Performance

On GOALSETTING: "I don't enjoy talking about what I am GOING to DO. I prefer to let folks find out what I've DONE.

Yes. That's the way it is. No one's amazed by what you've been up to. For all these years, you've been performing those exhausting acrobatics not to a distant gallery, but to an empty house.

Women are born actresses. They know all about adaptation; it's part of their identity as women.

maybe everybody is really somebody else deep down but they all learn their lines and get their diplomas and go through life playing these roles and they get so used to it they just can't stop.

When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win.

Instead of a thoroughgoing democracy, Americans have settled for democratic stagecraft.

The theatrical performance of politicians who profess to speak for an "American People" do nothing to highlight the history of poverty.

The telephone is your theater, your stage. Your receiver is your curtain. When it goes up, make yourself a star.

But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.

There is much more to playing the clavier than playing written music. Do you realize with accompanying there is often nothing written out but the bass line--the left hand? There might be a few notations as to a suggested harmony, but it is up to me to fill in the music, at the proper volume, style, and harmony for the soloist--often instantly. I've heard it said that Bach questioned wether the soloist or the accompanist deserves the greatest glory.

Exhausted by hours of crying and hysterics, Peggy fell into a restless sleep. Her marathon display of insanity, the grandest theatrical performance of her life, had successfully deceived Washington and Hamilton.

Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.

Geeks Do It with More Ram.

Don't twist your voice while singing, You will hate how it sound when you are quiet

The candidates hit the floor like Travolta, ready with their moves, knowing that the spotlight is going to find them and illuminate every glistening thing: both sequins and sweat.

I wanted to confess that if someone took out a gun and killed me onstage he would be doing me a favor.

On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory ñ but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory, but so are those of the ballet or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

Confidence is a sense of certainty about your ability, which allows you to bypass conscious thought and execute unconsciously.