Quotes About Performance

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.

I think anything that affects me in my personal life is going to help me be a better artist on stage.

One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.

But we go out as a band because we enjoy each others company, first of all. And its the payoff for me, to go out and play my art and still play guitar, which is my life.

Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others.

I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.

For a DJ at my level, you can really go through life and travel the world without seeing a single thing. It's harder to go out and see the sights than it is to play a show.

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.

The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway.

When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.

Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.

Fathers, I do not practice. I'm not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil," then God enters in me.

Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them.

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.

I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.