Performance Quotes
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The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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You want to be appreciated for all your work as opposed to one performance, but I'll always be 'that bloke from 'Lock, Stock'.' You've got to embrace it.
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For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance.
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It was an extraterrestrial performance. It is very special to go below 4:50, but I believe I can do better.
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I'd like to think I could do something great - a performance like Meryl Streep's in Sophie's Choice - at some point in my life. At the same time, though, I don't want to put too much pressure on myself to be great.
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I want to establish quality on both ends of the floor. It's very important going into the conference tournament that we're not just good on offense, but also good on defense. We have to have a better defensive conversion from offense to defense, we need to take care of the ball. I need to see a complete performance.
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I'm the type who'd rather not work than work on something I'm not into. I've done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance.
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My sister tells me I began singing before I could even talk. My first performance was of a song called My Blue Heaven, which I began singing when I was a year and a half.
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The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.
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You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.
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If I am elected to Congress, I plan to introduce legislation tying Congressional pay to performance.
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I have never had great expectations of my performance or of a film. I try not to think about the outcome. If you look that far ahead, it sort of taints your choices as an actor. I try as hard as I can to believe that no one is ever going to see it and that it's not even a movie. Then you can allow yourself to bare more. Then, once a project is done, I tend to forget about it until it comes out.
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I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys get out there at a young age and the performance posturing is so great and ends up being hard and aggressive.
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I think it was our best performance of the season.