Acting Quote by Lillian Gish

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

— Daisy Shah

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

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

I'm not very comfortable with watching my performances. I don't particularly find a great joy in it. Everything is the process of making it,…

— Pierce Brosnan

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

You can feel how the audiences react. For us, it's about the performance and the reaction. We feed off the energy. And no matter…

— Kevin Jonas

The only way for me to give a good performance is to make myself extremely uncomfortable - and it just so happens that being…

— Willis Earl Beal

I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.

— Vince Gilligan

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

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up…

— Robert Carlyle

The audience, the place you're in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

— Kevin Spacey

A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and…

— Kelly Jones