Steve Kazee Quotes
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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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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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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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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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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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Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.
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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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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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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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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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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
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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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All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.
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You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.
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If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.
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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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Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.
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When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
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Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.
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I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.
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If you try to create someone else's performance, it becomes a facsimile of a facsimile.
