Performances Quotes - Page 9

• Seeing babies and little children smile or even just be inquisitive about a bottle cap isnpires me. Watching a great performance, particularly live or in the moment. My favorite actor at the moment is the three-time Tony Award-winning Mark Rylance. Makes me work to be better.

  Graham Shiels

  Baby, Children, Winning

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• Performing is always my biggest rush. The energy is boundless from a great crowd. I truly believe in energy as a force that is exchanged, especially in a performance situation. You give your utmost and the audience gives it back tenfold.

  Matt Sorum

  Believe, Giving, Energy

  "Guns and Roses Matt Sorum on Passion and Compassion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I remind myself: I am the best. I have the best. And I deserve the best. This is one of my personal mantras that I tell myself every morning before auditions, character work, and performances.

  Allison Holker

  Morning, Character, Auditions

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• But, working with directors whose history is in performance, I feel like there's a different kind of focus, as opposed to directors who are more prone to being really technically proficient or visual. I feel like there are two schools of both, and a director needs to have both.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  School, Two, Focus

  Source: collider.com

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• For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?

  Johnny Depp

  Cartoon, Action, Get Away

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• It's true that laptop performances can be boring for the audience. The problem is, the organizers of events are still putting us on the classic "rock stage," instead of trying to find new ways to present the music.

  Christian Fennesz

  Rocks, Trying, Events

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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• In my case, I am improvising with existing sound files. I use an MSP patch that a friend of mine made, and you have to improvise when you use this patch. I don't use a guitar in performance anymore.

  Christian Fennesz

  Guitar, Sound, Use

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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• The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play it, and the real painful honesty that I approach my performance with.

  Jason Gann

  Dog, Honesty, Real

  Source: collider.com

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• London exists normally in a state of bleach bypass. There's the artistic context of "Blow Up" and "Performance" and all the Sixties and Seventies British films that I grew up on, because I did very much grow up on British films.

  William Monahan

  Growing Up, Blow, London

  Source: collider.com

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• Even though a screenplay is performed only once, unlike other forms of drama, it's still a performance in itself, and unless it's a great performance, odds are that actors will not come, and a movie will never be made.

  William Monahan

  Drama, Odds, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I would be so curious to wire my brain up and see what's occurring when I act, because a performance is such a heightened state. I've always found that with doing theatre especially. It's so hard to come down.

  Luke Kirby

  Brain, Theatre, Wire

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I valued the experience of making the recordings, and I value the performances contained therein, and I value so much of what they can represent. I also think they're a terrific listening experience. Putting them out this way was a way of trying to maintain and nurture the relationship with the audience and also shine a light on the recent past, because we are so apt to be forgetful as human beings that there was such a thing as a recent past. These are some of the reasons for making this record.

  Will Oldham

  Past, Thinking, Light

  "Will Oldham’s Fourth Dimension". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• Sometimes the ensemble 'Eighth Blackbird' will have performances and invite me to be a featured soloist. I think that is what they call it in that world-"featured soloist."

  Will Oldham

  Thinking, World, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• With that incredible voice that he [Alan Rickman] could play like a sort of wonderful instrument, like a cello or something. He played his voice, and he could be the most subtle of actors. And he could also be quite a big actor. He could do the grandiose performances as well.

  Helen Mirren

  Play, Voice, Actors

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance.

  Dan Ariely

  Kids, College, Parent

  "Mental depletion complicates financial decisions for the poor". Interview with Kristen Doerer, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2016.

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• In a sense, I like to think of the live performance as something different than the record, not necessarily looking to exactly recreate the record. Sometimes Matt and I just do duets folk-style. Part of the fun of seeing a live show is having it be different from the way that you hear it in your bedroom or wherever you listen to music.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Fun, Thinking, Style

  "Zooey Deschanel thrilled to be in She & Him". Interview with Marc Hirsh, www.today.com. March 18, 2008.

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• I love the stage, it's my first love - but, it's gone. You do your performance, then it's a memory. It only lives in the moment.

  Ruthie Henshall

  Memories, First Love, Live In The Moment

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Maybe when it comes to my music, or my performances, I'm a little more aggressive because I want everything to be perfect. But not in normal, day-to-day life.

  Tinie Tempah

  Perfect, Want, Littles

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all."

  Karen Allen

  Real, Giving, Trying

  "Karen Allen on The Sandlot, liking the fourth Indiana Jones, and being typecast". Interview with Pete Croatto, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2016.

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• There's so many variables in comedy. Comedy is not this thing that's a performance like a play. It's really an interaction with every single person in the room. And if there's a weirdness in the room for any people, be it something the comedians did at the top of the set or be it the mixture of the people isn't right, something can go awry. So it's really great to see you proven wrong about someone.

  B. J. Porter

  Play, People, Comedian

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• For performances I have my favorite go to's like Prince, Donna Summer, Vanity 6, Sheila E, but it also depends on the type of show I am giving. I could pull references from Broadway musicals, Rock Steady Crew, a Jamaican dancehall or gentlemen's club, etc. all within one show. It truly is a playground with no restrictions for me.

  Mya

  Summer, Vanity, Rocks

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• When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did it: me on the piano, playing a couple of songs I'd written and talking to the people in between. That's how I got my performance chops up.

  Alicia Keys

  Song, Couple, Talking

  "6 Questions With Alicia Keys". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. October 20, 2005.

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• I'm going with Charlotte Rampling. In 45 Years [movie], you start out feeling so bad for her, and then it kind of shifts. I don't know how long you have to act to be able to say everything when you say nothing. The acting feels so real. It's not a fluke that a movie that probably no one's heard of, an actress performance comes out of it.

  Bun B

  Real, Years, Long

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• You know that this vignette and that vignette belong side by side, you know that a certain turn of phrase you've been saving will probably work best within a given section of the narrative. As in a jazz performance, writing lives or dies by what's produced in that moment. But that moment is attended by long preparation.

  Teju Cole

  Writing, Long, Preparation

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• 35mm film isn't ticking away so it's subconscious - performances are allowed to breathe in a much more real way I think.

  Andy Serkis

  Real, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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