Quotes About Performance

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with 'No Cure For Cancer.'

I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.

A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.

I think theater ought to be theatrical.

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.

For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.

I want to be more physical and theatrical within the stand-up. There might be dance moments, and people better watch out - I will gallop.

I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.

Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it creates.

Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. You don't see it.

The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - they were theater artists.

My mum is a theatrical person. I saw a tape of a theatre project she did when I was a kid. I was really affected by the idea that my mum could turn herself into someone else for the purpose of telling a story.

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.

My appearances are almost theatrical performances. I bring items for the children to see, such as photographs and actual piece of meteorite, a family quilt, sometimes spectacles, sometimes clothing, so that they can understand what I write about is family stories based in fact.

If you think about what 'The Killing' is, it is the theatrical production, not the script.

I liked being on stage; I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.

We're entertainers. We're theatrical.

We love the idea of really putting on a show. It's not just a band playing on the stage. There's a theatrical element to what's going on.