Details Quote by Sue Tompkins

Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that…

— Marina Abramovic

Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.

— Joe Dempsie

The bad news is that ignoring the performance of people is almost as bad as shredding their effort in front of their eyes. ……

— Anonymous

That's such a relevant thing, as an actor - committing and not being distracted by any kind of technical awareness, or whatever. You do…

— Dylan O'Brien

Audiences want to feel something intense, quickly, without wasting a lot of time.

— Sydney Pollack

When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.

— David Bronstein

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

For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right.

— Debbie Harry

It's really easy to hide in metaphor or hide in a solo or instrumentation, but when you're saying explicitly this is how I feel…

— Masego

A good or great performance is like peeling an onion; in every scene you reveal another layer, something the audience hasn't seen until then.…

— Larry Moss

It is a treat to do scenes where you silently enact.

— Karthi

My favorite term for a new kind of performance is "security theater." In this genre, we watch as ritualized inspections and patdowns create the…

— David Byrne