Quotes About Performances

I love playing in Vegas because you've got people from all over the world, and you're already accepted. It's kind of a great mixture of people that come out to the shows, and that makes it fun.

We like playing smaller venues, but we know how many people want to come and see us so we don't ever want to stop anyone who wants to come to a show from coming.

The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.

There are so many good venues in Chicago.

We've had to be escorted out of venues, things like that. We get security guards now.

I've toured all over the world, and all over the UK too, but I mainly get to see venues, hotels and airports - which is a bit unfortunate.

I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.

Life has no rehearsals, only performances.

I love working with rotoscopic animation because under the incredible handpainted artwork are real actors and real human performances.

I like all kinds of shows. The small shows are a totally different vibe. I don't care how many people are there as long as they're into it.

Thankfully, the meat of the Tony telecast is the performances from the shows, so the awards show kind of creates itself around the season, and then I fill in based on the vibe of the season in general. I'm happy that there'll be so many legitimately good performances on the show.

I like to have fun with my videos and performances, that's the most fun part when it comes to the music. I get to show off my character.

But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.

I think that now that we are seeing multimedia types of productions with videos and pictures and human beings performing the acts that animals used to perform, such as in Cirque du Soleil and other traveling troops, there is no need to parade animals around anymore in cages for personal gratification.

In Vietnam, we can go and get big audiences, and we've been going there for so long. A lot of other hip-hop groups don't even go.

The avant-garde is attitude, principle, set of activities, set of performances, articulatory forms, positive objects and processes.

I was always very dramatic - my family would probably use the word 'dramatic' - as a child; always putting on performances, making everyone come watch, and pay to watch. I was very business-savvy as a child.

There aren't many shows that encompass roles for a seven-year-old to someone in their 50s.

I'm not a great director or an auteur; I'm an ensemble director. I do think I can get wonderful performances out of actors.

But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.

British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.

I always have to come back to shows to take out the improvements actors have put in. Laughs are addictive, and sometimes they're good laughs, and sometimes they're bad laughs.

A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.