Quotes About Performance

Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.

Why do Uber drivers get rated on customer satisfaction but corporate executives get a pass?

Shut up! We can't hear the mimes! —Jacques Prévert Les Enfants du Paradis

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.

government needs more flexibility to identify talent and recruit effectively for the workers with the skills it needs; it needs a pay and benefits system that is competitive with private markets; it needs a talent management system that rewards top performers and deals with poor performers, including increasing flexibility in firing those whose work is substandard. And

that an economically rational buyer would pay for a work product before, and after, the activity is performed.

The strongman shoved him, and Uncle Barney fell to the ground. His knight's costume of pots and pans banged loudly.

See how the fearful chandelier trembles above you each time you open your mouth to sing. Sing.

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

All magic is about transformation... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation.

My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.

Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.

I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.