Casey Abrams Quotes
There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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The waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet – paté, Whitstable oysters, a sole, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes.
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I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?
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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.
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The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.
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Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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How much we like ourselves governs our performance.
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[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".
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This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. And they say Obama's not black enough!
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I think you get the most honest performances when an actor shows up to set with their lines memorized. That's a very important thing that a lot of people seem to forget.
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You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.
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A vocation is the backbone of life.
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I'll note you in my book of memory.
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With eyes up-rais'd, as one inspir'd, Pale Melancholy sate retir'd, And from her wild sequester'd seat, In notes by distance made more sweet, Pour'd thro' the mellow horn her pensive soul.
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
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I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.
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There will always be trouble so there will always be a time for heroes
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There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.
