Quotes About Performance

Forget being a decent man, Terence. Go for castability. Could you even play a decent man in a movie?

They were in performance. They were performing their marriage at me.

This is Quilty's audition ritual: whenever he feels it is time for it, he calls upon himself to audition for love. He has no script, no reliable sense of stage, just a faceful of his heart's own greasepaint and a relentless need for applause.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

When all is said and done, there is usually more said than done. [as quoted by Alfred E Neuman]

Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.

I'm not Meg tonight, I'm a 'doll'.

operatic tragedy began.

If Amy went to court without any rehearsal beforehand, she'd know exactly what to do.

When the girls saw that performance, Jo began to dance a jig, by way of expressing her satisfaction, Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with up–lifted hands, Well, I do believe the world is coming to an end.

Yes, Father, I have played so many parts that I shall not fail now but enjoy the masquerade, since I have a partner in it

He was also a terrific showman, a trait he inherited from his father.

Hamilton was an exuberant genius who performed at a fiendish pace and must have produced the maximum number of words that a human being can scratch out in forty-nine years.

If politics were a musical, it would be Promises, Promises.

How can a president not be an actor?

Radio was theater of the mind.

For years, I've heard the question: "How could an actor be president?" I've sometimes wondered how you could be president and not be an actor.

Sessizce, Cambazlar bir kez ipin üzerinde dengede durdular m?, kalabal?k yaln?zca onlar?n düÅŸmelerini bekler, dedi.

She was an ordinary person. But by 'ordinary' I just mean that she didn't have any need to dramatize herself. It's not a criticism. I don't think of the urge to perform as something that adds to a person's character. If anything, it's a defect, especially when it's coupled with a need to compete.

The next four girls were led from the wall into the centre, where the red blended with the blue and settled into a respectable purple. Again the couples began absorbedly describing circles on the village-hall concrete to the beat of the song that the scrawny singer was enthusiastically belting out

People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they don't know is that they are the actors on the stage; he (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines.

I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.

The Hindustani storyteller always knows when he loses his audience, he said. Because the audience simply gets up and leave, or else it throws vegetables, or, if the audience is the king, it occasionally throws the storyteller headfirst off the city ramparts. And in this case, my dear Mogor-Uncle, the audience is indeed the king.