Performances Quotes
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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.
Casey Abrams -
A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.
Sean Durkin
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Before the whole music business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.
Arthur Fogel -
Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve.
Gene Lees -
Trust is the one thing that affects everything else you're doing. It's a performance multiplier which takes your trajectory upwards, for every activity you engage in, from strategy to execution.
Stephen Covey -
Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend.
Stephen Covey -
Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.
Stanley Kubrick -
Mary Kay knew that when you put people first and then surround them with processes and disciplines that recognize their efforts, performance will soar.
David C. Novak
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I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.
Mike Figgis -
I have been doing this since I was nine years old. So whatever the role is, I am going to do the best I can do. The only thing I am concerned with is stepping on the stage in front of that camera and giving the best performance I know I can give, day in and day out as an actor.
Darius McCrary -
Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.
Anna Meredith -
For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.
Declan Donnellan -
Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.
Michael Bergdahl -
I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs in my life and I never will. Over the course of my career I have taken hundreds of drugs tests and every single one has been negative.
Mo Farah
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There's a big difference in doing a play or doing any project that not a lot of people see and then a project that you know everyone will see. There is more pressure, performance anxiety per se. And then when you do and what you love is really put to test.
Viola Davis -
I grew up listening to Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, and Angela Lansbury, so I grew up wanting to sound like Patti and Bernadette. What I realized, though, is that I can't sound like that, and what makes their performances magical is their uniqueness.
Susan Egan -
When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening right then and there: the exchange, the art, the communication. Performance is in the moment.
Gail Ann Dorsey -
Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.
Hal Higdon -
I'm also always thinking about the score as a recording, as opposed to a performance that can be recreated in a live environment. Some of what I write could of course be played in a concert hall, but for the needs of a film I don't consider that.
Geoff Zanelli -
I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, Ill hit a brick wall and need to sleep.
Hattie Morahan
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Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.
William Gilmore Simms -
Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.
Montgomery Clift -
I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.
Rue McClanahan -
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
George W. Crane