Best Performance Quotes - Page 2

• Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a big enough machine behind you, you get nominated, because truly how many of the best performances actually win...not many.

  Christopher Judge

  Winning, Machines, Oscars

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. July 11, 2006.

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• Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.

  Utah Phillips

  Poet, Performances

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• I think Broadway is good for sharpening your skills. It's the best for really reaching the zenith of your talent. You go so far and reach the peak of it and you say, "Maybe this is the best performance I can do."

  Michael Jackson

  Thinking, Skills, Zenith

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Emotion is more than just anger. When I am performing, I need emotion, but I need control, too. Emotion drives the best performance and is necessary, but it must be controlled. I believe Fedor [Emelianenko] does that. I do too. We may look different in how we do it, but we both do it.

  Mike Tyson

  Believe, Doe, Different

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• It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance you can give.Nothing in your personal life must interfere, neither fatigue, illness, nor anxiety--not even joy.

  Lillian Gish

  Giving, Joy, Anxiety

  Lillian Gish (1969). “The Movies, Mr. Grifith, and Me”

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• If you're playing a fictional character, you can create a character, you can sort of take certain liberties. And when you're playing a real person who's actually standing there watching you, you know, it's - you do feel a weight. You know, you feel an obligation to not only be - to give the best performance that you can, but to make sure that you represent this person.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Real, Character, Giving

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I might feel like one day is one of my best performances ever and I may top that performance or I may just pace myself for the next 5 shows. Rather I'm giving them a good show it will always be a solid same show so it always depends on my energy.

  Lil Herb

  Giving, One Day, Next

  Source: thesource.com

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• I have been doing this since I was nine years old. So whatever the role is, I am going to do the best I can do. The only thing I am concerned with is stepping on the stage in front of that camera and giving the best performance I know I can give, day in and day out as an actor.

  Darius McCrary

  Years, Giving, Roles

  "The Darius McCrary Interview- The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

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• The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."

  Vaginal Davis

  Light, Advice, Given

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give.

  Johnny Carson

  Giving, Performances, One Thing

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• As an actor for hire, my job is to do some pre-production work for myself. Then my job is to show up and give the best performance I can.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Jobs, Giving, Actors

  Source: www.crazedfanboy.com

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• I always have to pretend I'm somebody else to give the best performance. It kind of feels like I'm acting; it's definitely an exaggerated version of me. I'm a very normal, down-to-earth person, but I wanted the videos to be striking, so I have to lay it on a little bit.

  Jessie Ware

  Giving, Acting, Normal

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I first started working on movies as a production assistant, we were shooting 65, 75, 85 days. I mean, granted some of those things were "Godzilla," "Deep Impact," and those kinds of things, but these days it's like 30-35 days or 40-45 days and you just feel like you're humping trying to get everything done. It's like "Move on, move on, move on!" That's not the way to get the best performances or the most interesting shots. You have to constantly balance schedule and quality of work. For me, that's the biggest thing.

  Michael Sucsy

  Moving, Mean, Impact

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Shutting people down creatively often doesn't get the best performance out of them.

  Seth Rogen

  People, Performances

  "Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Talk THIS IS THE END". Interview with Jason Gorber, screenanarchy.com. June 5, 2013.

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• I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

  Taylor Hackford

  Giving, Trying, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994

  Alec Guinness

  Years, Theatre, Villa

  Alec Guinness (2001). “A Commonplace Book”

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• We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.

  Ben Harper

  Crops, Shows, Cream Of The Crop

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• Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during 'The Shining.' It's like one of the best performances ever. Maybe he shouldn't have gone that far, but I love that movie.

  Jonah Hill

  Crazy, Shining, Gone

  "Jonah Hill On Set Interview GET HIM TO THE GREEK – Also Talks THE ADVENTURER’S HANDBOOK, His Career, Sequels, and SO Much More". Group interview, collider.com. April 13, 2010.

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• My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and I thought it was a great idea. I felt like it would be good to record over a certain period of time and then take the best performances of that collection of recordings. It appealed to me that it wasn't going to be from just one location.

  Josh Turner

  Night, Ideas, Would Be

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• I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

  Johnny Weir

  Mom, Athlete, Winning

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• I learned that I was either crazy in love with you, or putting on the best performance of my life.' -Nora (PG 263)

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Crazy, Love You, Performances

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• The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Performances

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• This year I spent two months in Australia, and I did all the training camps in London. It was a really hard winter because I want to give the best performance of my career at the Olympic Games! That is the only title I'm missing and I will do my best to take it!

  Peter Kauzer

  Athlete, Winter, Years

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• The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.

  Cheng Fei

  Athlete, Gymnastics, Giving

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• The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

  John Ousterhout

  Inspirational, Transition, Improvement

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