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Performance Quotes
"The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists."
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"The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept."
11
"When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted."
10
"I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?"
10
"When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start."
10
"To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it."
10
"I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning."
10
"Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white."
10
"I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level."
10
"Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance."
10
"An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance."
10
"The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before."
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"Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance."
9
"If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons."
9
"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."
9
"Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance."
9
"I think these awards are always nice for a player but they also reflect well on the club. It shows that Arsenal's performance have been noted all around the world and it helps by having so many good players around me."
9
"Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie."
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"The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive."
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"You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance."
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"The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance."
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"No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance."
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"It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England."
9
"It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance."
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"If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash."
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"Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach."
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"So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes."
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"The real secret of magic lies in the performance."
8
"Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital."
8
"Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked."
8
"What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge... unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent."
8
"Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory."
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"You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance."
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"There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge."
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"I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt."
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"Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance."
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"A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance."
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"Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance."
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"An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise."
7
"I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance."
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"I try to get the best performance an actor can give."
7
"I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation."
7
"The one that sang, old Janine, was always whispering into the g***** microphone before she sang. She'd say, 'And now we like to geeve you our impression of Vooly Voo Fransay. Eet ees the story of leetle Fransh girl who comes to a beeg ceety, just like New York, and falls een love wees a leetle boy from Brookleen. We hope you like eet.' Then, when she was all done whispering and being cute as hell, she'd sing some dopey song, half in English and half in French, and drive all the phonies in the place mad with joy."
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"I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen."
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"Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it."
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"In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium."
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