Quotes About Performance

As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people.

Teachers literally break down at the thought that if their students have a bad a test day, their job is on the line.

When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

Being a dominatrix gave me the ultimate power: to sing without self-consciousness.

Women [are] dwarfed not developed by competition. . . . What men did not want to do, they said was women's sphere. If a woman is natural[,] a man does not want her. This makes of woman a liar and a pretender. A woman is an actress who plays to an audience of men. They know what will be applauded and what will be hissed.

Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.

May night continue to fall upon the orchestra

In cinema the director has to breathe life into the actor, not make of him a mouthpiece for his own ideas.

Trainers tended to perform with the same degree of effectiveness at various Saratoga meetings

Robert said, This is great, huh? Sorry to butt in and everything, but I really need the extra points. For my grade. Ben nodded and tried to smile. Right, for his grade. He probably wanted to get an A++ in social studies instead of just an A+

He developed a particularly annoying way of ignoring the teaching during the term and then coming top in the examination.

A dead program normally does a lot less damage than a crippled one.

Let your instincts contribute to your performance.

The O() notation puts an upper bound on the value of the thing we're measuring (time, memory, and so on).

You get motivated by doing things, not thinking about them.

The master judges by the result, but our Father judges by the effort.

It is a bad musical, but, like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do its job perfectly well.

Nothing has happened in right field all season, which is why he was put there: a kind of athletic Canada.

It is a bad musical, but like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do it's job perfectly well.

BARKY THE BARKING DOG SHOW

bravo, bravo!' says Terry. 'That was il magnifico de stupendio!' 'Thank you,' says Mr Big Nose, taking a big bow.

dance contest …

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

We follow our scripts like actors in a very large, very long production. And even with no audience, none of us gives a hint that it isn't real.