#performance

All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language. ↗

— Richard Foreman

#dialogue #get #heard #i #interesting

I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage. ↗

— Mel Torme

#am #dead #eight #folks #get

It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#back #blowing #bringing #encores #flashing

I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#always #back #believe #every #give

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#being #every #features #gloves #i

The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age. ↗

— Fritz Weaver

#because #doing #i #i can #lifetime

An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance. ↗

— Curt Gowdy

#good #only #performance #yesterday

I'd like to think I could do something great - a performance like Meryl Streep's in 'Sophie's Choice' - at some point in my life. At the same time, though, I don't want to put too much pressure on myself to be great. ↗

— Heather Graham

#could #great #i #life #like

We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#coaches #damaging #dangers #enhancing #involved

I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know? ↗

— Eva Green

#dad #going #hard #i #know