I’m a performance artist first; I’m a recording artist second.
I wouldn’t do nudity in films. For me, personally… To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.
Honestly, I don’t think I’m exceptionally pretty or talented. But the advantage I have is that the performances I do can only be done by me.
It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn’t need to be drastically different.
I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn’t being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.
I try to avoid gaining weight as much as possible because it hinders my performance onstage. Touring demands so much energy.
My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict to a doctor, and my life often depended on my performance.
My restlessness leaves my mind racing as I try to wind down at the end of mandatory recovery day. It keeps me tossing after poor performances. And if I played well, well… playing well makes me itch to play better; there is always room for improvement.
It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.
I love every aspect of live performance and putting our shows together and approaching it from the standpoint of, ‘What would we want to see if we were a fan sitting in the audience?’
I feel like I’ve been around performance my whole life. My mom and uncle had done plays.
Done right, a performance review is one of the best opportunities to encourage and support high performers and constructively improve your middle- and lower-tier workers.
My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play – regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.
When you drive it is you, the car and your performance on track that counts. That is why I do it.
Once I had gone for a shoot at a remote Fiji island in the middle of Pacific Ocean and I was thoroughly bowled over the popularity of this character there! I’ve also got positive feedback from U.K., U.S.A., Canada, Pakistan and Dubai for my performance as Brahmanad.
The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
I don’t care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you’ll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.
So many horses get stage fright when they enter the arena, and that’s it – the performance is over.
There’s nothing like live performance.
The psychology of sport is so important. When you are standing at the crease, in front of a stadium full of people, it’s a pretty intense experience. So you need to have the psychological tools to control your mind and deliver your best performance.
Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise’s economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
My hair’s a pain in live performance. I’m always inhaling it: I almost choked to death a couple of times.
You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.
I’ve realized that I can do performances.
Bringing out your vulnerable side and shedding your privacy in front of complete strangers is so very difficult, but when you are into the performance, the relief and release is so extraordinary that you get addicted.
If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works.
If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I’m interested in doing.
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
The math works. Over the course of a season, there’s some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There’s so much data that you can predict: individual players’ performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost – it’s there and then it’s gone.
With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living, breathing entity from the soul.
I had a really great performance with Steven Tyler in the movie ‘Be Cool.’ I performed ‘Cryin’,’ so we recorded the song beforehand. But I didn’t get to meet him until I hit the stage with him, and we had a live performance with 30,000 people in the audience, and that was for the movie.
Modesty is not possible in performance in the Caribbean – and that’s wonderful.
Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that’s how it’s always felt to me.
One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone’s performance.
I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.
For me, the intellect is always the guide but not the goal of the performance. Three things have to be coordinated, and not one must stick out. Not too much intellect because it can become scholastic. Not too much heart because it can become schmaltz. Not too much technique because you become a mechanic.
The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.
Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.
Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance.
Every time I watch a performance, I’m disgusted with how I’ve skated. It’s very hurtful for me.
On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.
I make films from the heart. I want to concentrate on the job of doing great and honest performances, and I’m gonna get better with every performance of mine, with every film of mine.
Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.
I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.
When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it’s the direction.
I think movies are a director’s medium in the end. Theater is the actor’s medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.
If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.
Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you’re able to do it under pressure.
A great physique and a good performance make for a delicious combination.
I’m not a photographer, so I didn’t get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That’s the world that I’m moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.
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 have been moments when I was physically strained, but I have overcome the hardships by staging performances and receiving support from our members and fans.
With YouTube, it’s mostly about scripting and editing. Live performances depend on the crowd, their mood and reactions.
I did my acting performance in ‘Roger Rabbit.’ I think I did a voice-over also in ‘Osmosis Jones’ and I directed an episode of my show years ago, ‘Tales from the Crypt’ and that’s my endeavors in the non-producer oriented ranks.
