Performances Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think it's one of those things about live performance - anything goes, anything can happen, and you have to just be ready and able to roll with the punches.

  Sara Bareilles

  Thinking, Anything Goes, Able

  Source: www.glamour.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 someone's performance is down we do not say, 'Hey pick up your things here.' We do not yell and scream at them, we say, 'Are you okay?' The idea of putting our financials goal aside for one minute to express empathy for the human being for that work and saying, 'Are you okay?' That is part of the sacrifice.

  Simon Sinek

  Sacrifice, Ideas, Goal

  Source: www.quickbase.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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• The performances in the future would be like an audience wired to somebody who was sort of instigating, and then moment-to-moment creation would be transmuted individually.

  Jerry Garcia

  Would Be, Moments, Creation

  Source: medium.com

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• There are performances in which the people who have the best muscle skills and musical history may be on the stage, but it's not  -  like a Dead show is not like a usual sit-down performance; the audience does participate.

  Howard Rheingold

  Skills, People, Musical

  Source: medium.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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• I'm there [on Moana] with the other actors, so you play off one another. It's not just your idea of what the character is and what the world is like it would be in an animated [film], where it all sort of exists in your head. It's all right there, and if Diego's performance is doing what it's doing, it affects yours.

  Alan Tudyk

  Character, Ideas, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We [with Rick Rubin] would focus on the ones that we did like, that felt right and sounded right. And if I didn't like the performance on that song, I would keep trying it and do take after take until it felt comfortable with me and felt that it was coming out of me and my guitar and my voice as one, that it was right for my soul.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Voice, Guitar

  Source: wrvo.org

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• Having done stand-up on television and in stand-up specials for like Comedy Central, you learn quickly that for that type of performance you're playing to the camera.

  John Mulaney

  Cameras, Done, Television

  Source: uproxx.com

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• I would say that I am proud of my performance from Cracker and I think a lot of that was due to the writing was just so good. It's so rare that you get such good writing these days but it was awhile ago.

  Boti Bliss

  Writing, Thinking, Proud

  Source: actionflickchick.com

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• There was something about Beyoncé that felt like a vessel, I guess, that I could kind of impose all of these feelings and thoughts onto. I was drawn to a little bit of a dichotomy between the glamour and celebrity and the very deep and complex legacy of black women, and what that means in terms of performance.

  Morgan Parker

  Mean, Feelings, Black

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Thinking, Want

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We need to increase the capacity; we need to improve performance so that we are more effective at lending that kind of support.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Support, Needs, Kind

  Source: www.gov.za

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