#performance

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films. ↗

— Jonathan Demme

#films #hitchcock #i #i think #making

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#attention #class #class clown #clown #get

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance. ↗

— Joan Didion

#girl #i #impulse #little #little girl

When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#before #doubts #forced #go #into

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. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#doing #get #had #i #interested

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#applaud #audience #butter #cattle #diseased

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#entertainers #events #great #i #i think

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#average #average person #capable #competence #developed

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over. ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

#am #before #every #i #i am

My performances have finally caught up with my ego. ↗

— Ato Boldon

#ego #finally #performances #up