top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage."
Standard
Customized
More
"No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful. Drunk as they were they could immediately detect any false gesture, any false word. You could never underestimate an audience. They had paid to get in; they had paid for drinks; they intended to get something and if you didn't give it to them they'd run you right into the ocean."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I love a finished speaker I really truly do. I don't mean one who's polished I just mean one who's through."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I attended a symposium to hear Shilagh Mirgain, Ph.D. speak on Mindful Leadership. Throughout her program, I made sure to make eye contact and smile to support, affirm, and engage with her presentation. When audience members do this for me, it adds an extra punch of dynamic energy that enriches my presentations and improves my performance."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do."
Author Name
Personal Development
"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Let your performance do the thinking."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements."
Joy
"I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage."
Performance
"How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen."
Time
"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."
Chicago
"Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money."
Money
"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."
Feelings
"Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film."
Father
"Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two."
Career
"I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album."
Word
"I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America."
Actor
bottom of page