I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as 'The Royal Variety Show,' performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.
For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.
I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.
I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.
I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.
Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.
I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing is driven toward finding or writing songs and putting out hit songs that drive people coming to see me live. Because, at the end of the day, that's what ...
Unlike other voice-over situations which are done in a recording studio, Roger Rabbit was live action and animation combined, and there was a time factor, so my voice was recorded live on the set. So I'm on the set rehearsing and recording my voice a...
I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performance...
I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.
Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.
I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.
The great lesson in theatre is that you live the story every night, and that is a wonderful vehicle for getting to the richest places in a performance or investing a character with the richest life.
I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.
The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.
Performing in front of a live audience can be pretty intimidating, so having a full head of hair was important to me.
I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.
As soon as you do it, actors realize there is no difference playing a performance-captured role or a live-action role.
Show business imposes its own strict temporality: no matter how many CDs or DVDs we own, it would still have been better to have been there, to have seen the living performers in the richness of their being and to have participated, however briefly, ...
