Performing Quotes - Page 37

• A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning. Thoughts and emotions while performing an action are more important in determining subsequent engagement than the actual outcome of that action.

  Alfie Kohn

  Focus, Achievement, Important

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• As far as the performance aspect, I'm going to be an actor. I still love performing, but I'm moving into more acting.

  Stephen Boss

  Moving, Acting, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I have an enormous amount of respect for Nicole Kidman. She's just done so many great movies and she's been out there at the forefront of carrying films and being a movie star. On set, it really pays dividends because when you're performing with her, she knows exactly how to play it. You don't have to compensate for her in any way.

  Mark Strong

  Stars, Play, Done

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• World War Z was a great zombie film because those were zombie performances. It wasn't just a bunch of people walking around slow. They did close-ups on zombies who were performing, as a mindless dead thing. They were creepy and scary.

  Tom Savini

  War, People, Scary

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a children's theater background, so I grew up performing for child audiences; it's sort of my specialty. I know the child audience pretty well - or felt like I did because I performed for them so much. I studied a lot about the child audience, about theater. So it was naturally a place that I gravitated to.

  Linda Woolverton

  Children, Grew Up, Theater

  "Linda Woolverton and the Making of Maleficent". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2014.

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• It helps so much being on location. It's like the difference between performing for the rectangle of the camera versus a world being created and then the camera finds things within that. There's a huge difference in that, because what it takes away is performance. You don't feel like performing. You're just kind of doing it. You're existing.

  Christian Bale

  Differences, Cameras, World

  "Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Zoe Saldana, and Director Scott Cooper Talk OUT OF THE FURNACE, Filming Entirely On Location, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 2, 2013.

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• I love performing. I love being a provocateur. I love putting myself in situations that are uncomfortable and that I have to get out of.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Love Is, Situation, Uncomfortable

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At Columbia there's no performing arts department, so I was searching for it everywhere I could, and I took some photography classes and I ended up becoming fascinated with Eastern Religion, and ultimately it seemed to encompass the more abstract mind that I have.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Photography, Art, Class

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• I could draw ideas. I remember writing a paper for a seminar class. I remember writing a paper about - and this is going to sound really sort of pretentious, but that's where my mind was at the time - how acting and the performing artist can really be like a Bodhisattva, how they can communicate ultimately an idea in a way that can move and shift things. And that was wonderful. I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea, and that happened to be one of them.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Moving, Writing, Artist

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• If you have people who are high-performing working for you, it's so easy to do your job. Otherwise, you can't even agree on the time of the meeting or who will bring the coffee.

  Douglas Conant

  Jobs, Coffee, People

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• I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have for martial arts, so when I was 18 years old, I started studying performing arts with the eye of getting into the film industry and went to drama school after that.

  Scott Adkins

  Art, Drama, School

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

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• My experiences taught me firsthand that when a person is not performing well, there are many possible reasons, some not of his own choosing.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Taught, Reason, Wells

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• Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.

  Dave Chappelle

  Conquer, Streets, Venues

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• I certainly liked performing [Patrick Bateman], but it was because he thinks he's so [bloody] cool and just the [stuff], but is really such a cheesy dork.

  Christian Bale

  Thinking, Cheesy, Stuff

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• The question I ask myself like almost everyday is 'Am I doing the most
  important thing I could be doing?'

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Everyday, Important, Asks

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• The best time to practice mental rehearsal is at night in bed, just before you fall asleep. The last thing you do before you doze off is to imagine yourself performing at your best the following day. You will be amazed at how often the upcoming event or experience happens exactly as you imagined it.

  Brian Tracy

  Fall, Night, Practice

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Nov 30, 2013

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• Selling, in particular, can be a challenge; many investors are tempted to become more optimistic when a security is performing well. This temptation must be resisted; tax considerations aside, when a security reaches full valuation, there is no longer a reason to own it.

  Seth Klarman

  Optimistic, Temptation, Challenges

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• I knew what I wanted to do, which was to become a recording artist, so I definitely felt like I had a calling. The performing part was the part that I wasn't sure about.

  Ariel Pink

  Artist, Calling, Wanted

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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• As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.

  Ariel Pink

  Thinking, Work Out, Way

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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• To me, performing means trying to do the most you can with the partner in front of you, with the story you're telling. There are actors who have carried me, who have brought me elsewhere or with them.

  Clemence Poesy

  Mean, Trying, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of people that are always trying to be funny and "on" and performing are just hiding. It's just a cover for what they really are and how they really feel.

  Manny Montana

  Always Trying, People, Hiding

  Source: collider.com

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• In order to have a lasting career you'll need to spend time performing live to build your own audience, as it's not all about social media. Word of mouth still rules.

  Eliot Lewis

  Media, Order, Careers

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• Every organization needs to be introspective, transparent, and honest with itself. This only works if everyone is unified on the goals and purposes of the organization and there is trust within the team. High-performing, successful organizations build cultures of introspection and trust and never lose sight of their purpose.

  Colin Powell

  Team, Successful, Sight

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• I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.

  Michael Jackson

  Thinking, Feelings, Way

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• The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Perfection, Grace, Pretending

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2015

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