#performance

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

I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#cerebral #creative #creative artist #emotional #i

As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack? ↗

— Arabella Weir

#children #dragged #fan #favourite #get

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. ↗

— Mae West

#performance #pounds #promises #worth

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization. ↗

— Edmund White

#biography #continual #different #discovery #feels

I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance. ↗

— Kelli White

#enhance #i #never #performance #substance