What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work.
Never step over one duty to perform another.
Life is like a ballet performance -- danced only once.
It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.
Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.
I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.
I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.
This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing.
Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.
Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.
I live in different worlds. One world where I perform my duty as a part of society. My favorite is my world. The writing's world.
Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.
When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.
As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?
On 'Sullivan,' you sang live. Not only that, you sang with a 40-piece band. So you had instruments that weren't even on the original record! So this was when the rubber met the road - when you had to really learn how to perform. And it was for 10 or ...
I used to suffer from stage fright, which at times was an ordeal. I won't perform live again. I'm going to do some TV shows and videos but nothing else... I don't like to travel too much or do concerts. I'm more of a studio and home girl.
