“Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.” PeopleIfsLife IsCertainActorsEmotionalPlanetsPerformancesPrimariesVocabularyPercentages Author:Mary McDonnell
“I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.” WantArtistCreativeStyleEmotionalPerformancesCreative ArtCerebralCreative ArtistsWhirling Dervish Author:Scott Weiland
“Emotional self-control is NOT the same as overcontrol, the stifling of all feeling and spontaneity....when such emotional suppression is chronic, it can impair thinking, hamper intellectual performance and interfere with smooth social interaction. By contrast, emotional competence implies we have a choice as to how we express our feelings.” ThinkingSelfFeelingsChoicesSocialEmotionalIntellectualPerformancesContrastInteractionSelf ControlInterfereSmoothCompetenceSpontaneitySuppressionSocial InteractionStiflingHamper Author:Daniel Goleman
“The child to be concerned about is the one who is actively unhappy, [in school].... In the long run, a child's emotional development has a far greater impact on his life than his school performance or the curriculum's richness, so it is wise to do everything possible to change a situation in which a child is suffering excessively.” ChildrenLongRunningSchoolSufferingSituationGreaterWiseEmotionalDevelopmentConcernedPerformancesImpactUnhappyLong RunsRichnessCurriculumEmotional Development Author:Dorothy H Cohen
“You need someone who has a really good way of enabling trust in the cast and crew, or the cast particularly, to allow them the confidence to stretch themselves to get the performance that you're going to need to provide all of the emotional up and downs in the film.” WayNeedsFilmEmotionalPerformancesCastsCrewGood WayUps & DownsEnabling Author:Nicholas Sparks
“Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.” KnowsGivingHelpingUseActorsEmotionalTastePerformancesStatementsJudgement Author:Stanley Kubrick
“The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.” KnowsWantGivingCharacterHelpingJobsActorsLinesEmotionalExerciseTasteSceneDirectorsJudgmentPerformancesStatementsTaste And Judgment Author:Stanley Kubrick
“No matter how many great performances or exciting visuals we put together for the movie, we found that it was all somewhat two dimensional until we added the emotional heart of Howard Shore's music. Then, and only then, did the film come to life.” HeartTwoMatterTogetherFilmFoundEmotionalPerformancesExcitingVisualsShoreGreat Performance Author:Peter Jackson
“The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view. The hard part is that the investor must measure himself not by his own perceptions of his performance, but by the objective measure of the market. The market has its own reality. In an immediate emotional sense the market is always right so if you take a variant point of view you will always be bombarded for some time by conventional wisdom as expressed by the market.” IfsYearsHas BeensHardRealityViewsEmotionalPerceptionPerformancesPoint Of ViewHardestObjectivesInvestorsConventionalDominantHardest ThingConsensusConventional WisdomVarianceBombarded Author:Michael Steinhardt
“What you can do with visual effects is enhance the look of the character, but the actual integrity of the emotional performance and the way the character's facial expressions work, that is what is going to be created on the day with other actors and the director.” WayLooksCharacterActorsCan DoEffectsEmotionalExpressionIntegrityDirectorsPerformancesVisualsFacialFacial ExpressionVisual Effects Author:Andy Serkis
“Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on set - if you don't get it on the day, in the moment, on set, in front of the camera, with the director and the actors. The emotional content of the scene and the acting choices.” IfsMomentsCharacterChoicesActorsActingFrontsEmotionalPlanetsSceneDirectorsCreatingPerformancesCamerasTranslateApesFacialAnimator Author:Andy Serkis
“If you emote in your performances, people feel connected to you as an emotional person, because that's how we communicate. That doesn't mean people know you. At a certain point, I think you have to just be your own self.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFeelsMeanPersonsSelfCertainEmotionalPerformancesCommunicateConnectedMean PeopleEmoteEmotional Person Author:Patricia Arquette
“When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it's like a romantic song or a happy song.” PeopleWantFeelsSongEmotionalConnectionsPerformancesGoing To WorkEmotional Connection Author:Boy George
“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.” DifferentRememberSongInterestingRecordsEmotionalPerformancesHappy EndingsInteresting ThingsMallsAcoustics Author:Avril Lavigne