#performance

Good acting is consistency of performance. ↗

— Jim Dale

#consistency #good #good acting #performance

There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you. ↗

— James Franco

#because #care #directing #everything #feel

I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances. ↗

— David Friedman

#comfortable #front #going #i #people

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#because #becomes #certainly #concept #everyday

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#charter #charter schools #florida #gained #improved

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#certain #circumstances #deeds #demand #even

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#indispensable #initiative #performances #receives #recognition

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#beater #conducts #improvement #more #musician

I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine. ↗

— Alison Lohman

#about #before #each #even #fine

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#after #come #every #every time #humor