Performances Quotes - Page 24

• Thankfully, the meat of the Tony telecast is the performances from the shows, so the awards show kind of creates itself around the season, and then I fill in based on the vibe of the season in general. I'm happy that there'll be so many legitimately good performances on the show.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Awards, Meat, Kind

  "Tonys 2012: Q&A with Neil Patrick Harris on Eve of His Hosting Three-peat". "The Hollywood Reporter" Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.

  Anne Hathaway

  Thinking, Trying, Actors

  Interview with Chelsea Handler, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2011.

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• 'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.

  Jonah Hill

  Real, Drama, People

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• Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during 'The Shining.' It's like one of the best performances ever. Maybe he shouldn't have gone that far, but I love that movie.

  Jonah Hill

  Crazy, Shining, Gone

  "Jonah Hill On Set Interview GET HIM TO THE GREEK – Also Talks THE ADVENTURER’S HANDBOOK, His Career, Sequels, and SO Much More". Group interview, collider.com. April 13, 2010.

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• I've realized that I can do performances.

  David Hockney

  I Can, Can Do

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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.

  Judy Holliday

  Giving, Facts, Composer

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• No, I'm not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you'd get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work.

  Whitney Houston

  Husband, Work Out, Addiction

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• Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

  William Ralph Inge

  Connections, Phases, Consciousness

  William Ralph Inge (1932). “More Lay Thoughts of a Dean”

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• The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Artist, Literature, World

  "In the land of memory: Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when". Interview with Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2000.

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• I think everybody has a moment in their career where you have to test whether it was right or wrong. We've all been there. I've looked back at performances of my own, where only you know if it is something you want to repeat. As long as you know when it's not right that you don't repeat it all the time.

  Jessie J

  Thinking, Careers, Long

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

  Janet Jackson

  Birthday, Hair, Age

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• Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'

  Joan Jett

  Wise, Hard Work, Needs

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• One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.

  Penn Jillette

  Magic, Sometimes, Disaster

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.

  Elton John

  Mean, Income, Records

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• Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.

  Mindy Kaling

  Thinking, Years, Careers

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2011.

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• If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

  Ben Kingsley

  Play, Fish Tanks, Three

  "I can do anything" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. January 02, 2001.

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• I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.

  Annie Ilonzeh

  World, Want, Screens

  "Annie Ilonzeh Doesn’t See Color But Is Happy To Be Charlie’s First Black Angel" by Rebecca Carroll, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2011.

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• I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

  Adam Lambert

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• It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.

  Jon Landau

  People, Maintaining, Professionalism

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• James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his own life, and performs in them in his own style. All of his performances are marked by an eloquent simplicity.

  Jon Landau

  Song, Writing, Reflection

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• The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every day in a different mall! One interesting thing I remember is playing "My Happy Ending" a lot, and that song was so new that I remember getting emotional when I would play it.

  Avril Lavigne

  Song, Emotional, Interesting

  "Talking to Avril Lavigne". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. February 25, 2008.

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• It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Humor, Men, Creating

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3839, Delphi Classics

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• Anthony Mackie in 'The Hurt Locker' is everything an actor can hope to be. So rock steady in his portrayal that you immediately forget every performance he may have previously given, and focus only on the character in front of you.

  Denis Leary

  Hurt, Character, Rocks

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• It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume.

  Geddy Lee

  Battle, Records, Dynamics

  "Geddy Lee and Billy Corgan on concept albums, jamming, singing and more". Interview with Joe Bosso, www.musicradar.com. June 25, 2012.

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• You just have to take control of your own performance.

  Damian Lewis

  Take Control

  "'Homeland' Damian Lewis, David Harewood Q&A". Interview With Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. February 13, 2012.

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