Performances Quotes - Page 4

• I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Art, Ideas, Frustrated

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Walking back and forth also helps by creating the illusion that you are thinking of the routines on the spot, giving your performance a more spontaneous feeling.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Thinking, Creating, Giving

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• Taping yourself and making yourself listen to the tape of each performance no matter how bad is really important. There's always a nugget line or a direction pointed out to you in even the worst show.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Important, Nuggets, Tape

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• The Jackass movies are honestly some of the best movies I've ever seen. I laugh so hard at them. Those guys are geniuses. If they had grown up with a different group of people, they could've been performance artists at Bard College, and people would be writing papers about them.

  Louis C. K.

  Writing, College, Artist

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. June 20, 2011.

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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 think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  Winning, Thinking, Important

  "Interview: ‘Bloodline’ star Ben Mendelsohn on black sheep and American accents". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. March 20, 2015.

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• When I'm preforming a lot I'm aching to get back in the studio but I love live performance. I love trying to think on my feet and be spontaneous. I like doing that in a live show and I do the same thing in the studio.

  Joel Plaskett

  Thinking, Feet, Trying

  Source: thewiremegazine.blogspot.com

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• Music is a performance and needs the audience.

  Michael Tippett

  Music, Needs, Audience

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• Every time you watch a performance in the theatre, you know that this is just for you, and will never be the same again. It is quite exciting for me.

  Robert Dessaix

  Theatre, Watches, Exciting

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• People have thought that some of my writing and lines are done by a machine. I'm able to move in a way that's part gestural dance performance, and it's fun for me, so I incorporate that into the painting.

  Jose Parla

  Fun, Moving, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.

  John Katzenbach

  Teamwork, Support, Team Building

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• It's very difficult to find the time or the money for people to organize rehearsals for some movies. It staggers me how little preparation often goes into these scenes which are difficult and complicated. You think, "God, it's crazy. I've never met this person before and here I am having to work at how to do a whole performance on the set." It was great to have a few days of just talking to Michael [Caine] and Daniel [Barber] and thinking about the characters and the relationship between them before we started shooting.

  Emily Mortimer

  Crazy, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• A demanding performance challenge tends to create a Team. In any situation requiring a combination of multiple skills, experiences and judgments, a team inevitably gets better results than a collection of individuals. Teams provide the kind of responsiveness, speed, on-line customization and quality that is beyond the reach of individual performance.

  John Katzenbach

  Teamwork, Educational, Skills

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• Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team's purpose and performance aspirations.

  John Katzenbach

  Teamwork, Fun, Educational

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• Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.

  John Katzenbach

  Teamwork, Educational, Team Building

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• Comedians don`t get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can`t really speak about the Oscar-worthiness of my own performance.

  Steve Martin

  Long, Comedian, Oscars

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

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• I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

  Bruce Beresford

  Ideas, Long, Theatre

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• Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.

  John Mayer

  Mean, Break, Stage

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• You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief.

  Lionel Tiger

  Enthusiasm, Bears, Barrels

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• To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.

  Michael Caine

  Character, Thinking, Giving

  Michael Caine (2010). “The Elephant to Hollywood”, p.272, Hachette UK

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• For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

  Michael Caine

  Stars, Character, Interesting

  "Michael Caine: 'I Spent My Life Doing Something That I Love'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block, www.wknofm.org. May 30, 2013.

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• Three languages - the video, the music and the live performance - are awesome to bring together.

  Planningtorock

  Together, Three, Video

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Creativity, Band, Charlie

  Dizzy Gillespie (2009). “To Be, Or Not-- to Bop”, p.367, U of Minnesota Press

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• Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in genuine democracy, only performance counts.

  Norman Granz

  Differences, America, Democracy

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• I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Summer, Art, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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