Quotes About Performance

I write myself into existence by the stories that I tell about my life. I also write with my posture and with my manner of walking and speaking, and I write with words and with my actions.

In the theater, the attitude of righteous ownership deprives the audience of an encounter with the unfamiliar.

Dionysus does not explain or regret anything. He is pleased if he can cause you to perform, despite your plan, despite your politics, despite your neuroses, despite even your Dionysian theories of self, something quite previous, the desire before the desire, the lick of beginning to know you don't know. If life is a stage, that is the show. Exit Dionysus.

Who does not end up a female impersonator?

During the summers, she worked with the fit-ups.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do." —JANE AUSTEN, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

Not everybody is created equal, and it's important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.

When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground, and swish my tail–none of which is easy.

It's a plié. You do it on all the positions. It's very good for dramatic moments.

Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, 'Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,' but it's really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.

A vagina or a penis need not cause gender identity from the inside to be relevant in staging oneself as a woman or a man. The extent to which they are relevant depends on the scene. Out in the streets one does not need a penis to perform masculinity. But in communal showers at the swimming pool, it helps a lot. So there they are, the genitals: on stage.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

Annie Barrows

Achieving transient hypofrontality generally requires exercising at one's "ventilatory threshold"—the point at which breathing becomes labored, corresponding to about 80 percent of the exerciser's maximum heart rate—for forty minutes or more.

Professional Actors' Learning Strategies,

Even though the run of The Dining Room had ended five months earlier, and many of the actors had learned new roles since then, they still remembered the lines from Gurney's play that had been accompanied onstage by movement or gestures (as when Arthur holds out the spoon to Sally). Lines they had delivered while standing or sitting still, the Noices discovered, were much more likely to be forgotten.

Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy.

When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.

We're professional footballers, so we have to go out there and perform as best we can and try and get the results that we want.

I danced for, like, 11 years at bar mitzvahs and executive parties. I'm a professional energy producer. I produce energy, baby.

I just want to be a professional. I couldn't live without acting.

My first professional role was in 'Romeo and Juliet,' and I played Tybalt, who was Romeo's enemy, in a small production of that in the U.K.

We are professional footballers. How to cope with the pressure is one of the things we have to learn.

We have to connect to our fans through the media, and when you talk about that, it's got to come from your heart. And when it comes from your heart, it has to be absolutely consistent. There's a big risk you take without an interpreter because, as professional baseball players, we are here to perform baseball, not to learn a language.