Quotes About Performance

Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.

You cats mind if I make it a trio?' he asked me, and it was not a huge surprise that a dude of his appearance was speaking in Jazz Voice.

Never send a Man in to do a Donkey's job

I'm now 'Doctor' to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.

If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita.

You know you're about as forthcoming as a mime.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.

What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor.

The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.

This is the theater. And this is the best place for the imagination.

Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination.

All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

Your imagination is your most important tool, as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.

What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.

I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.

To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

Radio was theater of the mind.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.