Performances Quotes - Page 26

• I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don't.

  Brad Pitt

  Character, Cracks, Problem

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• I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fun, People, Our Words

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• The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Potters, Film, Harry Potter

  "Daniel Radcliffe: 'My drive is to prove I'm not a one-trick pony'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2013.

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• I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Careers, Not Good Enough, Looks

  "Daniel Radcliffe: 'My drive is to prove I'm not a one-trick pony'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. June 02, 2013.

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• I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

  Keanu Reeves

  Moving, Light, Giving

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• If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Trash, Leotards, Particular

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• To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

  Keith Richards

  Squares, Two, Feet

  "Excerpt: New book chronicles Keith Richards interviews". Interview with Whitney Matheson, www.usatoday.com. September 9, 2013.

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• I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.

  Julia Roberts

  Clothes, Documentaries, Film

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• Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

  Henry Rollins

  Giving, Giving It All

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• I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama, then candidate Obama, going through Iowa making promises. I think the gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.

  Mitt Romney

  Wedding, Iowa, Promise

  "Romney: Obama’s promises as good as Kim Kardashian's wedding vows" by Cameron Joseph, thehill.com. January 2, 2012.

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• Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  President, Able, Wonder

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Moving, Errors

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial journey, the museum literally fell away. I was suspended in some weird nonspace.

  Jerry Saltz

  Journey, Museums, Two

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• 'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Ethos, Crumbling

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• I'm no diva but I can be annoying in a recording studio. Of course I try to be a diva in terms of confidence of performance and owning a song but I've never behaved like one in terms of the negative connotations of the word.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Song, Trying, Negative

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

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• I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Kind, Natural, Subtle

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• I've auditioned for roles that involved voice, but I don't like it. I feel like, I can't do this in front of you. It seems so separate - I don't share it with a lot of people. And I'm not into public performances.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Voice, People, Roles

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• I did my acting performance in 'Roger Rabbit.' I think I did a voice-over also in 'Osmosis Jones' and I directed an episode of my show years ago, 'Tales from the Crypt' and that's my endeavors in the non-producer oriented ranks.

  Joel Silver

  Thinking, Voice, Years

  "2nd Joel Silver Interview NINJA ASSASSIN. Plus Info on Dark Castle Projects, Remakes, SHERLOCK HOLMES, More". Roundtable interview, collider.com. November 24, 2009.

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• Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It's OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it's not all right to miss the majority of them.

  Simon Sinek

  Soccer, School, Kids

  "Making Sacrifices". www.askmen.com.

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• The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.

  Simon Sinek

  Curves, People, Population

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• Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me.

  Christian Slater

  People, Progression, Hopefully

  "Christian Slater: Clean Slater". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. July 1, 1993.

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• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  Maggie Smith

  Maggie, Stage

  "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.

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• You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Acting, Enough Time, Directors

  "'Vampire Diaries': Ian Somerhalder on His 'Pissed-Off' Character and Whether He'll Direct an Episode (Q&A)". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 16, 2011.

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• It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.

  Kevin Spacey

  Athlete, Character, Night

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• In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.

  Steven Spielberg

  Technology, Eras, Digital

  "A Minute With - Steven Spielberg on "Tintin" and "War Horse"". Interview with Bob Tourtellotte, uk.reuters.com. December 21, 2011.

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