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To me, a performance is a military operation; it requires so much planning, and then ripping up the plan the minute you get there…

— Chilly Gonzales

It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance you can…

— Lillian Gish

The thing I find really special in performance is that there is this slightly mystical thing that takes over when you're responding to a…

— Johnny Flynn

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it…

— Leo Kottke

My focus is on giving my best and I have to enjoy my performance as then only audience will enjoy.

— Daisy Shah

You reach your audience at the moment when you really have something to say - that is, when you're not just delivering a performance.

— Thomas Quasthoff

Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?

— Joshua Oppenheimer

Sometimes you get an audience that's looking to just explode.

— Anonymous

I do some things just to entertain myself, and I figure that part of the audience will be entertained as well.

— Mick Foley

Performing in front of an audience gives you an extra ten per cent energy and the chance to react to the instant feedback.

— Bob Mortimer

As a performer, you want your audience to have as much fun as you are having on stage.

— Neha Kakkar

My audience is often hands-up, standing and cheering and on tables and all of that kind of things.

— Gloria Gaynor