Performances Quotes - Page 21

• I was a teenager, and I went to see the Superman movie, and up to the point I walked into that movie, I was a kid with no direction and no real purpose and no strong parental figures, and kind of aimless. I walked out of that movie knowing that whatever my life was going to be from then on, it had to have something to do with Superman, because something touched me emotionally with Christopher Reeve's performance.

  Mark Waid

  Strong, Real, Teenager

  "Mark Waid on his personal digital-comics revolution". Interview With Oliver Sava, www.avclub.com. July 10, 2012.

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• You can't just have a good voice. You need a great voice, song, performance and video. When people see you, it all has to match up. There's a lot of missing parts in R&B right now. That's why it's not selling right now. Things that are irresistible, people will pay for it.

  Sean Garrett

  Song, Voice, People

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• What you have to remember, when you get to the level of seeing 10,000 people a night, is that they've all paid to have a performance. I need to make sure that they get their money's worth. I don't want to be going on stage and saying, "I'm just going to try some stuff and if it doesn't work, it doesn't matter," because it does matter.

  John Bishop

  Night, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, reggae music and its aesthetic are touchstones in both simple and complex ways. Reggae's capacity to be a folk music that is created in a wholly modern context of the recording studio (and sometimes that is the sole performance space) is riddled with the kinds of contradictory impulses that we have come to expect from the post-modern. I revel in this, for it gives me, shall I say, permission.

  Kwame Dawes

  Simple, Space, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Clint Eastwood enables and allows things to happen. You walk on some sets and it's like walking into an emergency room. It's like, "Come on guys, we're just making a movie here." That tension runs into the performances and into the movie.

  Matt Damon

  Running, Guy, Rooms

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• The feelings of being in the audience and being on the podium are very far apart. When you're onstage and something goes wrong, you can do something about it. In the audience, you just have to sit there, and if it's a disastrous performance, I'm the one that gets blamed.

  George Benjamin

  Feelings, Audience, Can Do Something

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

  Marina Abramovic

  Believe, People, Want

  "AP Interview: Being Marina Abramovic, Serbia-born performance artist relaxes iron self-control". www.foxnews.com. October 06, 2012.

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• A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.

  Marina Abramovic

  Powerful, Rooms

  Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.

  Marina Abramovic

  Would Be, Billionaire, Paid

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• From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Attitude, Documentation

  "Sundcase Interview | Marina Abramovic Explains How HBO and Lady Gaga Bring Performance Art to a New Audience". Interview with Bryce J. Renninger, www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2012.

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• I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

  J. J. Abrams

  Movie Love, Creatures

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

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• When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.

  Scott Adams

  People, Boss, Stories

  "Scott Adams Keeps the Home Office Humming". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. September 7, 1997.

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• In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.

  Ian Anderson

  Song, Identity, Determined

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• Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

  Asia Argento

  Children, Thinking, Directors

  "Wild child" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2005.

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• I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

  Kevin Bacon

  Wanted, Stills, Aspire

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• I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

  Erykah Badu

  Artist, Firsts

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• Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.

  Steve Ballmer

  Years, Ideas, People

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• I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.

  Eric Bana

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• Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.

  Javier Bardem

  Quality, Chance

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 13, 2004.

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• I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

  Charles Barkley

  Motivational, Basketball, Games

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• It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Interesting, Joy, Collaboration

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• People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, People, Events

  Interview with Jack White, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.

  Mary J. Blige

  Apples, Vines, Cider

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• I've been to almost every country in the world, and the most frustrating thing for me has been that my schedule has always been so busy that there's so little time before and after performances to explore where I'm visiting.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Country, Schedules, World

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• What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Beautiful, Mean, Beauty Everywhere

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