What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.