Matter Quote by Susan Kelechi Watson

When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening right then…

— Gail Ann Dorsey

For me, rehearsal is only about blocking and pacing; it's not about performance.

— Robert Eggers

Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment, are sometimes…

— Patti Smith

While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.

— James Nesbitt

I don't believe that you can give the same performance every take. It's physically impossible, so why bother? If you don't do what is…

— Bill Murray

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

A performance is a conversation between you and an audience.

— Livingston Taylor

I make sure I say something important without being preachy through all my performances.

— Pankaj Tripathi

I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.

— Jonny Lee Miller

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

When I go out and perform, it's my nightly therapy session. I go out and set the tone and nobody is safe. Nothing is…

— Tony Hinchcliffe

I know we want to play fast and play in transition, but later in a game you don't want to play out of control.

— Jordan Poole