Pastoral Resources

All you owe the public is a good performance.

I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.

I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.

People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.

Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.

Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

Drugs won't enhance your performance.

Let your performance do the thinking.

My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together.