Performances Quotes
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I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.
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The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.
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Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.
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I think the performances that really communicate with me are the ones where I don't feel like I'm watching someone and thinking: "They're doing some really good acting." It's when I'm literally completely consumed by the story-telling and the actor or actress is evoking something in me. I think that's so powerful and cinema and TV has so much power.
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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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Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.
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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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During my performances, I don't like folks to take pictures because I feel that we live in a very photographic time. Photography was invented over 100 years ago, and now it's at its peak because everyone has a camera. The fact that they are taking experiences and filtering them through a mechanical lens I find amazing, but also disheartening. Amazing when you have photographs that start revolutions. Disheartening when you have people making photographs but not living.
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'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.
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My studio works in cycles. I am consistent with all of the practices, but I give attention to one part for a certain amount of time. I say, "Okay, I'm making performances," and sometimes that means I can't be making photographic works. As I'm maturing as an artist, years have passed and I feel that I'm becoming a better craftsperson in multiple fields, but that takes time. Also, because I trained as an actor, I hold this thing about how an actor prepares and therefore I try to prepare for all of my tasks.
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My favorite song is "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" because it's become my signature song. I sang it for six American presidents and five command performances... it's made me a world citizen.
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In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God.
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I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
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'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second.
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We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
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The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.
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There are no prizes for average performance.
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All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because our basis is spoken word.
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Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.
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Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.
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I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.
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We have tons of live performances that we're putting on there. We have music videos. There's a music video for the song called I Am Jesus what is one of the funniest music videos, like we just could not find a place for it in the movie, but it's like crazy funny. And we have the whole video.
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We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.
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Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances.
