Quotes About Performance

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.

That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

The 2012 payout will be the lowest in our history: well below 50 percent.

Boy George always told me to stop noodling; he wanted me to belt like Ethel Merman.

I've just aimed to go out with a clear mind; to try not to premeditate my shots and if I'm going to play a few big shots I try to have a few deliveries under my belt first; have my eye in a bit better.

Dignified theatricality is an essential element of power.

Politicians, singers, and preachers are in the same business, using sound to move hearts and change minds.

Dan, what people want is results. That's what matters.' " Bush's discomfort with the rhetorical requirements of his office was one of his cardinal weaknesses as a president.

Robert Shelton of The New York Times had reviewed a Greenwich Village performance by a young folk singer, Bob Dylan. "His clothes may need a bit of tailoring," Shelton wrote of Dylan, "but when he works his guitar, harmonica or piano, and composes new songs faster than he can remember them, there is no doubt that he is bursting at the seams with talent.

TV is just troubled people being booed these days.

It felt like a vast left-wing conspiracy to pretend to have found Eric André's performance funny. This was everyday life on social media, each side lurching toward mockery and attack — fanning the flames of the divisive chaos from which Trump, the Twitter candidate, had risen. But

Of course, lots of people dehumanise others, find ways to irradiate empathy and remorse from their day jobs so they can preform their jobs better.

this was a man palpably simulating crying, which made the moment at once awkward, surreal, and quite disturbing.     Our

I happily played the clown, Because I am a clown.

Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head.

the novel is a liberal form…and the act of fiction writing is a performance of sympathy with people you are not .

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.

In other words, if everyone wants to play Hamlet all at once, they couldn't because there aren't enough skulls.

Our minds and hearts are well built to perform certain tasks, and poorly designed for others. We are good at things like calculating the path of a hurricane, and bad at things like deciding to get out of its way.

Instinctively he had already become proficient in the habit of simulating that he was someone, so that others would not discover his condition as no one; in London he found the profession to which he was predestined, that of the actor, who on a stage plays at being another before a gathering of people who play at taking him for that other person.

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Peter F. Drucker and Joseph A. Maciariello, Management: Revised Edition, 2008, p. 288.

A ritual is the enactment of a myth.