Performances Quotes
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In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.
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Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
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Dance every performance as if it were your last.
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I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance of a piece, no matter how long ago or where it was written, is always a new production, something that comes alive in the present. And it doesn't matter if the piece was written two or three hundred years ago if it is alive in us.
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The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at the goal, focus on what you gotta do and take one step at a time as a whole, as every performance being that's it, that's one objective, and let's just move forward and work on that.
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I don't think anyone could ever be wholly satisfied with their performance.
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You know that this vignette and that vignette belong side by side, you know that a certain turn of phrase you've been saving will probably work best within a given section of the narrative. As in a jazz performance, writing lives or dies by what's produced in that moment. But that moment is attended by long preparation.
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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.
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Performances will determine who actually ends up being the eighth-inning guy.
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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.
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I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.
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Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.
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I'm not impressed by your performance.
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In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.
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I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration.
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There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, so I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.
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Our behaviour as an athlete is often determined by our previous experiences and how we dealt with those experiences. It is these experiences from past performances that can often shape what will happen in the future. It is for this reason that you learn and move on to be more mentally stronger as both an athlete and as a human!
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Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
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You need to be a good screen partner. It's very meaningful to me to be a part of great acting performances.
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Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
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What I don't like too much really is individual comments about the performances of the players after the game.
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The clubs usually enforce no filming of performances pretty well. I want to know that what I'm doing is in the here and now and it's mine. I absolutely want control over my performances. And it is actually scary to see someone filming you without permission. Like Big Brother is watching. All these cameras don't make up for a life that isn't well-lived! I agree that people don't live in the moment, they instead live to make a name for themselves as "people who are living exciting lives and at great events".
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I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues.
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The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.
