Classic Performance Quotes

His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

Doing classic plays is wonderful. It's a wonderful way of developing style.

I probably remember more about 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' than Dick Van Dyke does.

People expect me to do the classics, and it is a lot like playing a favorite song.

Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.

I'm ready to do some classics. Maybe I wasn't in the beginning. I weighed 179 pounds when I got to New York, and I had that thick Southern accent. I still talk Southern, but I can do without it.

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.

The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.

People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.

Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

The acting of the '50s is really stylized, so you're not really getting a lot of authentic, everyday characterization of people.