Great Performance Quotes - Page 2

• I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all do together and how we collaborate together. A performance can be a collaboration in ways, but oftentimes it's one individual thing.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Together, Collaboration, Stories

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

  Scott Aukerman

  Successful, Years, Obscurity

  "Scott Aukerman of Comedy Death-Ray". Interview with Kyle Ryan, tv.avclub.com. June 22, 2010.

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• No matter how many great performances or exciting visuals we put together for the movie, we found that it was all somewhat two dimensional until we added the emotional heart of Howard Shore's music. Then, and only then, did the film come to life.

  Peter Jackson

  Heart, Emotional, Two

  "The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring The Complete Recordings Coming in November" by Brian B., movieweb.com. September 16, 2005.

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• Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Sports, Giving, Floyd Mayweather

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There are some movies that deserve criticism. They want people to know that it's a great dramatic accomplishment and has some great performances in it. But, c'mon. Yes, you will have some fun if you go see 'Snakes on a Plane.' Snakes are biting people - and they're biting them right on screen. There's nothing to review. It's not 'Snakes on the Waterfront.' You don't have snakes going, 'I coulda been a constrictor.' No. Hell no. It's 'Snakes on a Plane.'

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Fun, Snakes, People

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• When I was eighteen, River Phoenix was far and away my hero. Think of all those early great performances - My Own Private Idaho. Stand by Me. I always wanted to meet him. One night, I was at this Halloween party, and he passed me. He was beyond pale - he looked white. Before I got a chance to say hello, he was gone, driving off to the Viper Room, where he fell over and died. That's a lesson.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Halloween, Hero, Party

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• When you're a first time director, you're often considered what's called a "deadly attachment" in the eyes of financiers, because they're trusting you with a lot of money to bring something home, to get great performances, to not have a nervous breakdown in the process.

  John Krokidas

  Eye, Home, Attachment

  Source: collider.com

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• To go into more specifics regarding actors, whether they're from Korea or the U.S., all actors know if they are loved by the director. When they feel that love from the director, they respond by giving a great performance on camera. Also, everyone on set - the crew, the actors - they were aware of the film's message and its broad theme, so these big issues were never discussed on set.

  Kim Jee-woon

  Issues, Korea, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• Professor Irwin Corey had some of the best timing in the world, and that is something you can't steal. He talked nonsense, not punch-lines, per se. It was a great performance thing he did and his timing was impeccable. Pat Paulsen was a master of comedy too. The Smothers Brothers' strength was not in the content, but how it was said. We had a couple of our albums, including the Purple Onion album, translated in script form. It didn't work at all. It is no wonder that writers had a hard time writing for the Smothers Brothers, because they wrote impressions, but there was something else.

  Tommy Smothers

  Brother, Couple, Writing

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• It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of rightness - it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Spiritual, Mind

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• 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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• 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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• A good or great performance is like peeling an onion; in every scene you reveal another layer, something the audience hasn't seen until then. They stay involved because they are constantly learning about and discovering the character they are watching. They can't take you for granted and it keeps them hooked.

  Larry Moss

  Character, Layers, Onions

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• You'll see some great performances [in Fences]. And I'm not just saying that because I directed it either! You'll see!

  Denzel Washington

  Just Saying, Fence, Performances

  Source: www.theawesomemuse.com

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• I do feel that scripts get developed now to a point where they're sort of actor-proof. If the actor is not very good, the narrative still survives because it's all in the dialogue. Not to say there aren't great performances in English-language films, because there are every year, but the 1970s were awash with great performances, and I was wondering whether it had to do with the amount of space and the amount of responsibility given to the actors.

  Paul Bettany

  Responsibility, Years, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I look up to Bernard Hopkins as a fighter. I'm honored to be his co-main event and to be able to give a great performance.

  Keith Thurman

  Giving, Events, Looks

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• The fans get to see you, and you can do great by your record if you have a great performance or a great night there. That's all part of the business. But at their core, awards shows are not really a sincere thing. For a lot of years, the artists had to pay to play their own set.

  Jay-Z

  Artist, Night, Awards

  Interview With Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• I think 'SNL' is so well-known for its musical performances, as well, and people really breaking into America through a really great performance on there. So I think me and Gotye are both really excited to be amongst such company. You know, it's great.

  Kimbra

  Thinking, America, People

  "Kimbra And Gotye 'excited' For 'SNL' Appearance" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. April 13, 2012.

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• If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will experience the emotions, motivations, and perceptions necessary for great performance.

  Teresa Amabile

  Leadership, Meaningful, Motivation

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• Great individuals and great performances build a team, which produces brilliant performances.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Team

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• I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Directors, Actors, Helping

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• I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.

  Tim Roth

  Hands, Acting, Fascination

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• I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen and I've been like, Wow, that was a really great performance. Because there are a lot of elements with film. It's not like stage. It's not a kind of performance art anymore; it's a highly tuned kind of collaboration - a symphony.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Art, Symphony, Collaboration

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• We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Giving, Doe, Germany

  "Star-Spangled Baton?" by Leonard Slatkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

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• I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Dream, Lucky, Juice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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