Performances Quotes - Page 17

• I have a variety of ways that I make music, but I'm working with the Thingamajigs in a particular way, which is: They are bringing to me their performance skills and their unusual instruments, which I'm relishing. They're really beautiful. The other thing is improvisation - these players improvise and they do it very beautifully, as a matter of fact.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Beautiful, Player, Skills

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Keyboards, Instruments, Mice

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• I am trying hard to better my performances every match.

  Suresh Raina

  Trying, Trying Hard, Hard

  Source: www.oyecricket.com

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• One of the problems of a director on the set is that we become overwhelmed by all the factors and threads of production, that sometimes we can't focus on our main job, which is steering the performances to create the whole film.

  Whit Stillman

  Jobs, Focus, Directors

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• [The Surf Lodge performance] is sort of like an annual thing.

  Donavon Frankenreiter

  Surf, Annuals, Lodges

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• Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.

  Marina Abramovic

  Documentation, Early Work, Mislead

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• When I did "Seven Easy Pieces," I actually re-performed the performances of other artists. It was such difficult work because I had to really go through the documentation, look through the sources, to ask the witnesses who saw it.

  Marina Abramovic

  Artist, Difficult Work, Looks

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.

  Marina Abramovic

  People, Different, Forests

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• When I first had a video camera to document a performance, it was in Sweden and I remember it was really crucial for me.

  Marina Abramovic

  Cameras, Video, Sweden

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Zooming in, zooming out. I was shocked. I said, "Let's erase this right now, put the camera behind the stage and I'll do the performance just for the camera." He set up everything and I told him to go outside and smoke a cigarette. Come back when I finish. Don't touch the camera. This was the way how I've done most everything after that.

  Marina Abramovic

  Cameras, Done, Back When

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.

  Marina Abramovic

  Stories, Ends, Crescendo

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• My job is to try and present the most fully-rounded character that I can, and bring a performance that people believe in.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Jobs, Believe, Character

  Source: dailydead.com

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• All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance and send their children to this field.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Children, People

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is no less prodigious than the first.

  Domenico Gnoli

  Mind, Firsts, Reason

  Source: observer.com

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• In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.

  Molly Shannon

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• As actors, we want to challenges ourselves and put ourselves in different situations to see how we react and deliver a performance.

  Eric Stonestreet

  Challenges, Different, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• It's part of my responsibility, as an actor who has been lucky enough to have this job, to take my job very seriously, show up on time, know my lines, and give the best performance that I can because I'm doing something that so many other people work very hard to have and never get.

  Eric Stonestreet

  Jobs, Responsibility, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on set - if you don't get it on the day, in the moment, on set, in front of the camera, with the director and the actors. The emotional content of the scene and the acting choices.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Emotional, Creating

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• If I had more time, I could've utilized the stage more and turned it into my own but since I used all my energy writing and producing songs, my mind was blank when it came to my performances. That's what I regret the most.

  Seungri

  Song, Regret, Writing

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• There is something that you have that no one else ever had ... When you watch Kirk's [Douglas] performance in anything, in anything he's ever done, you cannot take your eyes off of him. It's not possible to look away from him.

  Steven Spielberg

  Eye, Watches, Looks

  "Spartacus really does endure: Actor Kirk Douglas celebrates his 100th birthday" by Lindsey Bahr, www.pressherald.com. December 10, 2016.

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• If you mess up the performance on stage, you do it again the next night. You're like alright, you let yourself off the hook, and you've got to go back in there. Whereas, with a film, I would go home and be like, "Well, I've ruined the arc of the character forever. That scene is never going to work. I know because I can never shoot it again." So, it's all miserable, but in different ways.

  Emma Stone

  Character, Home, Night

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Joey being one of my finest performances ever. Matt LeBlanc's basically doing the same thing right now, playing himself on Episodes. When I did Joey, I really leaned on them to make me the biggest ass they possibly could, because, frankly, everyone in their heart of hearts thinks of themselves that way. Or at least I do, anyway.

  Brent Spiner

  Heart, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I did a couple of little Off-Broadway things, but my first Broadway show was A History Of The American Film, written by Chris Durang. Swoosie Kurtz was one of the stars. It was a wonderful show. It closed in 40 performances. I think it was kind of ahead of its time.

  Brent Spiner

  Stars, Couple, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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, Great Performance

  Source: www.theawesomemuse.com

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• That's where you can find things and modulate your performance and give the other actors something fresh to respond to. We've probably all worked with actors who when it's suddenly your close up, they get sleepy. I don't like that. It's selfish acting, and I won't tolerate it.

  Denzel Washington

  Selfish, Giving, Acting

  Source: shadowandact.com

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