Satyajit Ray Quotes
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.
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I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
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Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary.
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Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices.
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Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.
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I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.
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When markets are rallying, cash in the portfolio is a drag on performance, returning about zero.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
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When you see a comedian on stage, the best comedians make it feel like a conversation. But it's not. We have very little interest in what an audience has to say during a performance. Being a stand-up comedian, you're an egomaniac to some degree. Everyone wants to hear what you have to say, apparently. That's not how real relationships work.
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People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.
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If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night.
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As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.
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Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
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If a news camera shows up, people will line up, they want to be seen. But at the same time they want both to be chosen and not singled out. I think that is an endless struggle within most.
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MAMMOOTTY has presented an outstanding performance in film'New Delhi'