Quotes About Performance

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.

Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

he drank and behaved outrageously because it was expected of him: he was living up to his legend.

One portfolio is better than another one when it offers higher mean return for a given level of volatility—or a lower volatility for a given level of return.

Tall, black-haired, rouged, Kaiser-moustached, he cackled and screamed in weird attitudes, giggling in high soprano, hiding his little black teeth behind an exquisitely gloved hand - the 'poseur' absolute. He was said to have slept with Sarah Bernhard and vomited for a week afterwards.

The other schools get along with this as a performance art, as a method of making a living, as a colorful decoration, or as a means of forcing flowers to bloom. Yet, can it be the True Way if it has been made into a saleable item?

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.

And the vile squealing of the wry-neck'd fife.

Talkers are no good doers.

It [drink] provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

Or may we cramWithin this wooden O the very casquesThat did affright the air at Agincourt?

As in a theater, the eyes of men,After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage,Are idly bent on him that enters next,Thinking his prattle to be tedious.

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

Good now, play one sceneOf excellent dissembling, and let it lookLike perfect honor.

William Shakespeare

I must speak in passion, and I will do it in King Cambyses' vein.

All the world is a stage and each and every person is a player

All the world's a stage, and all men and women merely players;

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrance. And one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.

The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.