Great Performance Quotes - Page 3

• I'm inspired by good work. Whether it is a great performance by another actor, a piece of art, or someone doing something altruistic.

  Mateus Ward

  Art, Actors, Pieces

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• If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Character, Men, Judging

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.21, Advaita Ashrama

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• To be happy is very important to do a great performance because you have to be comfortable; your mind has to be clear.

  Lyoto Machida

  Mma, Mind, Important

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• I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Hard Work, Mean, Thinking

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• The only acting you ever see at the Oscars is when people act like they’re not mad they lost. Nicole Kidman was smiling so wide, she should have won an Emmy at the Oscars for her great performance. I was like, "If you’d done that in the movie, you’d have won an Oscar, girl."

  Chris Rock

  Girl, Rocks, Should Have

  Chris Rock's remarks as host at the 77th Academy Awards ceremony at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, February 27, 2005.

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• I've really enjoyed the independent film world. I've had a blast. But, the reality is that I really want to make bigger movies. If I could make movies that carry great characters and great performances and great pathos, and can have an explosion or two, that would be fine with me.

  Matthew Lillard

  Character, Independent, Reality

  "Matthew Lillard Talks FAT KID RULES THE WORLD, Becoming a Director, the Film’s Road to Development and Plans for Future Directorial Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 10, 2012.

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• You have to know everything. You have to know how to light a scene. You have to know all this technical stuff about directing. No, you don't. You can know as much or as little as you have to. Your main job is to get great performances and tell the story correctly and capture it correctly. Then it's just basically yours to complicate or simplify as much as you want.

  Paul Feig

  Jobs, Light, Want

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• Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.

  Jackie Evancho

  Talking, Waiting, Normal

  "Jackie Evancho: Chasing Her Dreams". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Michele Norris, www.npr.org. May 23, 2011.

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• I look at it [Moonlight] and young Alex Hibbert who plays the young Chiron gives such a beautiful performance. By the time you get to the third story there have been so many great performances that you forget this kid was brilliant. Everybody does their job. It really is a true ensemble. I wish that were a category at the Oscars.

  Andre Holland

  Beautiful, Jobs, Kids

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.

  Lee Grant

  Stars, Eye, Past

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• I felt that let's understand that all these people are just human, even the advisors in the White House, they're just real people trying to make real decisions and they make mistakes like anybody else does under pressure. If you can get that with these great performances then you claim it on that level as well.

  Gerard Butler

  Real, Mistake, White

  Source: collider.com

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• Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known.

  Dennis Hopper

  Stars, Confused, Destiny

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• For example, the character of Claire in In Dreams wasn't imagined enough by me. Annette Bening is a great actress, and she gave a great performance, but because I hadn't fully written it essentially the character wasn't finished.

  Neil Jordan

  Dream, Character, Example

  "Horns and Halos". Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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