Performances Quotes - Page 16

• A large part of the impresario's job has to do with maintaining and communicating standards of performance. Knowing how to set those standards - which are often more subjective than analytical - means knowing how to communicate the difference between something that is great and something that is just O.K.

  John Kao

  Jobs, Mean, Differences

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go after a new approach to a tune or a performance.

  John Kao

  Risk, Musician, Tunes

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• It's what you do when you have Allison Janney.My jaw-dropped at her performance. You think that part is sort of a regular part until she steps into the shoes of the officer. She just filled it with such dimension and by giving her the whole shebang, the whole police thread, I think it was the right choice.

  Erin Cressida Wilson

  Thinking, Shoes, Giving

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I had to learn how to modulate my performances and interpretations of these roles in auditions for the camera.

  Zachary Quinto

  Cameras, Roles, Auditions

  Interview With Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• The [Frank] Sinatra interpretation of the music, as opposed to some other music that you were listening to - where you felt like they were singing at you - you felt Sinatra was singing to you. It's a very intimate art form, and that's what I responded to - the intimacy of his performance.

  Robert Davi

  Art, Listening, Singing

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• My favorite performance would definitely be "Toxic," which was my blind audition song. It was the start of it all and it was a song I had been covering before the show, so it was very dear to my heart.

  Melanie Martinez

  Song, Heart, Toxic

  "Little Body Big Heart: Melanie Martinez from The Voice". Interview with Melanie Michaud, shopgraffitibeach.com. September 10, 2013.

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• Every performance is completely its own thing.

  Bradley Cooper

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited and we were excited.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teacher, Should Have, Battle

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• Humor is more so. For this, there's definitely moments that I think, "I know this part is really funny and I want to see people laugh." And they do and you go, "Yesss." That's really satisfying, because I'm so proud of the performances in the movie and everybody worked so hard.

  Ti West

  Thinking, Laughing, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All those awkward moments - that's on the cast for doing such an amazing job. I think it was funny on the page, but when they did it, you definitely went, "Oh!" Watching it with a crowd that, like you said, was not expecting it to be funny, but then genuinely finding it funny, is totally a credit to their performances.

  Ti West

  Jobs, Thinking, Awkward

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• From a performance standpoint, it just gives [actors] so much - I had such a great cast [ in Valley of Violence] - and it gives them the ability to go wild with it and to have performances that are memorable.

  Ti West

  Memorable, Giving, Valleys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We can't make a giant sprawling movie. We're going to make a small movie. And what we got is what I could get, performance-wise.

  Ti West

  Wise, Giants

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I wrote [Valley of Violence] entirely with James Ransone in mind. I get such a joy out of watching his performance and seeing people watch this. He's so great. The bravado thing and the foolishness, he does them both so well. It's weird because he's so hateable in the movie, but in the end, you're also going, "I feel bad for him." That's hard to do. It's hard to do that to where you're like, "This guy's the worst, but I know why he's the worst, so it's a shame this is happening." That's the whole thing.

  Ti West

  People, Guy, Joy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance.

  Ewan McGregor

  Important, Actors, Littles

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• There is a remarkable nimbleness of style, a balancing act of tone, in Voltaire, which is hard to bring off on stage. When you speak the words out loud, the effect is very different from when you read them. So one needs to do something new with a stage performance, not simply 'tell the story'.

  Mark Ravenhill

  Stage Performance, Style, Different

  Source: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com

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• For some roles, like when I was doing Bent, that was harder and I didn't find that helpful because I was so calorie deprived, my brain wasn't getting food. I would end up not being as focused or as clearheaded as I would have liked to be during the run of the performances. I would lose those quality impulses that you lean on when you're acting because of malnutrition. basically. But I looked skinny.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Running, Brain, Quality

  "'Jack Reacher' Villain Patrick Heusinger on Playing Opposite Tom Cruise". Interview with Harper's Bazaar, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 24, 2016.

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• Social media is a performance like any other form of entertainment, and acknowledging that is important.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Media, Important, Entertainment

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small theaters. You know, to me it's like a church for music. You can sit down and really give yourself to the performance and be comfortable with good surroundings and a clean, quiet atmosphere.

  Terry Bozzio

  Brother, Thinking, Giving

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• I do love old horror, everytime I watch Rosemary's Baby the performances just get richer and richer and more multi-layered, and I see images that are just so politically outrageous. I love it all.

  Robert Englund

  Baby, Watches, Rosemary

  Source: graveconcernsezine.com

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• There's something wrong - the performance, the weather, the set design, the lighting. Something is not working. And so you say, "Give me 10 minutes." When you're first directing, you're terrified. But when you've been in that situation enough times, you know that under pressure, it will come to you.

  Paul Schrader

  Weather, Giving, Design

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The changes are coming so quickly it's been difficult for workers to retrain themselves and for entrepreneurs to figure out where the next opportunities may be. The catalyst is something called computer learning or artificial intelligence - the ability to feed massive amounts of data into supercomputers and program them to teach themselves and improve their performance.

  Andrew McAfee

  Opportunity, Data, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I wanted to be a pro volleyball player, and I fell in love with performance and audience response. The pressure of performing and doing something that I love doing in front of people who were grateful to see it. That relationship sort of worked out to be acting and theatre.

  Dan Payne

  Volleyball, Grateful, Player

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• I look at it [Moonlight] and young Alex Hibbert who plays the young Chiron gives such a beautiful performance. By the time you get to the third story there have been so many great performances that you forget this kid was brilliant. Everybody does their job. It really is a true ensemble. I wish that were a category at the Oscars.

  Andre Holland

  Beautiful, Jobs, Kids

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• You know, you're doing the same show every day, and your inspiration, you have to look no further than the fact that you know people travel across the country to see you. In a lot of cases, this is that audience's only chance to see the thing, and so, that's what gets you up in the morning, and that's what gets you giving your best performance on stage, is the awareness that this audience is ready for it, and here to have an experience, and so in turn are you.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Country, Morning, Inspiration

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think that this performance with the Thingamajigs is going to be an exploration of the acoustic space and particularly the vertical space, which we don't think about so much.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Thinking, Space, Acoustics

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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