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“A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. Its important to alternate between the two activities.”

Giving Two Important Character One Thing Activity Capacity Performances Scripts Screens Theatrical

Author:Toni Servillo

“The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, and the ties of personal friendship formed between the representatives of its several parts in the performance of their service at this metropolis.”

Whole Together Nations Social Friendship Habit Performances Harmony Unions Ties Mutual Sentiments Representatives Intercourse Mutual Respect Metropolis

Book:John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“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.”

Children Long Running School Suffering Situation Greater Wise Emotional Development Concerned Performances Impact Unhappy Long Runs Richness Curriculum Emotional Development

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the sense of projection over a distance as in an opera house. We have this microphone and this magnifies all details of a performance, all exaggerations. In the theater, you can get away with a very large, very grand phrase. For the microphone, you have to tone it down. It's the same as making a film, your gestures will be seen in close-up, so they cannot be exaggerated as they would be in a theater.”

Littles Would Be Film House Roles Records Performances Theater Distance Details Phrases Tone Get Away More Time Opera Gestures Projection Exaggeration Exaggerated Microphones Opera House

Author:Maria Callas

“The success of the stock connect program and the increased market volatility means investors are looking for more products to access China markets performance than exchange traded funds, and futures are feeding that rising demand.”

Mean Success Products Demand Program Performances China Access Rising Fund Investors Feeding Volatility

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs in my life and I never will. Over the course of my career I have taken hundreds of drugs tests and every single one has been negative.”

Life Has Beens Courses Careers Taken Drug Negative Tests Performances Performance Enhancing Drugs

Author:Mohamed Farah

“To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.”

Ifs Duty Performances Vote Debt Voting Neglected Payment

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Once committed to an attack, fly in at full speed. After scoring crippling or disabling hits, I would clear myself and then repeat the process. I never pursued the enemy once they had eluded me. Better to break off and set up again for a new assault. I always began my attacks from full strength, if possible, my ideal flying height being 22,000 ft because at that altitude I could best utilize the performance of my aircraft. Combat flying is based on the slashing attack and rough maneuvering.”

Ifs Process Enemy Break Clear Ideals Performances Committed Speed Flying Height Repeats Aviation Rough Combat Assault Pursued Aircraft Break Off

Author:Erich Hartmann

“I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance.”

Taken Performances Substance

Author:Kelli White

“Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.”

Performances Secularism

Author:Timothy Keller

“Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.”

Whole Moments Film Music Is Performances Live Performance Live Music

Author:Jonathan Demme

“Acting's always felt like a kind of creature that lays dormant and collects observations when I'm not working. And then when I'm actually doing it, it just rises up. But everything I do is more about curiosity and investigation than it is about performance.”

Kind Felt Acting Creatures Performances Lays Curiosity Observation Investigation Dormant

Author:Benn Northover

“A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.”

Feels Order Actors Performances

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“I always try to take from past performances. You never try to get too high or too low. Just play every game, just treat every game like it's the same.”

Trying Play Past Games Lows Performances Treats

Author:Derek Jeter

“The lower interest rates fueled housing and consumption booms in countries such as Spain and Ireland. At the same time, Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, tightened its belt and became more competitive. All this led to a wide divergence in economic performance. Europe became divided into creditor and debtor countries.”

Country Interest Struggle Economic Europe Performances Rate Burden Wide Germany Divided Ireland Consumption Spain Housing Belts Interest Rate Creditors Debtors Divergence Reunification

Author:George Soros

“Learn as much as you can about performing. Live theater, improv classes, music, stand up comedy, dance, anything to make yourself confident and comfortable in front of an audience. It'll all come in handy when auditioning for producers and performing with other actors. The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.”

“I was shaped in college into a performance artist. I never really thought of myself as being one singular thing. I think of myself as an artist and I feel no restrictions when it comes to how I want to portray what I want to portray.”

Thinking Want Feels Artist College Performances Restriction

Author:Jillian Hervey

“Drue [Langlois] and I started making music together before we started the Art Lodge, so I guess musical collaboration came first. The music we made, and our performances, always had a visual component. I could never play an instrument, so these other elements compensated for that a little.”

Firsts Littles Art Made Play Together Elements Performances Instruments Musical Visuals Collaboration Components Lodges

Author:Michael Dumontier

“These days, I find it harder to listen to really trebly lo-fi recordings. At the same time, without the old limitations, these new technologies require self control. So much of the software seems to be about correcting imperfections - quantizing, Auto-tune - and, to me, those corrections can really drain the life out of a performance.”

Self Seems Technology Performances Harder Limitation These Days Tunes Imperfection Software Self Control Drains New Technology Corrections Correcting Auto Tune

Author:Michael Dumontier

“In the scenes I try to be a giver as much as possible, giving the other actor something to work with. When not in the scenes I will stand in for eye lines to help the other actor with delivery and hopefully performance.”

Giving Trying Helping Eye Actors Lines Scene Performances Hopefully Giver Delivery

Author:James Preston Rogers

“My strongest quality as an actor is taking direction. I will give my performance as a template and if the director gives any instruction, I take that information, process it and morph it into the next take. I love the feeling I get when nailing a scene through direction.”

Ifs Giving Feelings Next Actors Process Quality Information Scene Directors Performances Strongest Instruction

Author:James Preston Rogers

“When you are surrounded by people who are much better than you, you have two choices: You can sh*t the bed, and the performance can go to hell. Or you can step up and rise to the occasion.”

People Two Choices Steps Hell Bed Performances Occasions Better Than You Step Up Go To Hell Two Choices

Author:John Cena

“Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are all up for it and you all get to do the whole thing every night, be it two hours or three hours. In film you work in two or three minute bits and it's never in chronological order and then someone takes that away and makes it look like it all happened, or that you gave that performance.”

People Looks Two Whole Film Night Order Three Bits Hours Happened Groups Minutes Performances Theatre Every Night

Author:Kevin Spacey

“Shutting people down creatively often doesn't get the best performance out of them.”

People Performances Best Performance

Author:Seth Rogen

“Companies watch what consumers are doing like a hawk. Just as one letter to a politician can signal an insipient problem, for companies, a trend where people are beginning to switch away from one of their key products to a rival offering on the basis of either claims or real improvements on performance, that's significant.”

People Real Problem Company Watches Products Keys Politician Letters Performances Bases Claims Improvement Significant Consumers Trends Offering Signals Rivals Hawks

Author:John Elkington

“Every season I teach zombie school. The casting people in Georgia look for like 200 new recruits. They come in in groups of 20, and I audition them and grade them based on their look and their performance ability.”

People Looks School Ability Teach Groups Performances Seasons Grades Auditions Casting Zombie Georgia Recruit

Author:Gregory Nicotero

“That's what's so satisfying about acting. You can come as prepared as you like, but there's no accounting for what's going to come at you from the other actor. That's part of the joy and the play of it. If you don't have that it's a different kind of performance.”

Ifs Kind Different Play Joy Actors Acting Performances Prepared Satisfying Different Kinds Accounting

Author:David Oyelowo

“I certainly don't feel there's a distinction to be made between a television and a film actor. I think there's a distinction between great actors and not so great actors. But I really think if you watch a person working in television give a wonderful performance, that person is f - ing great, because there is no time.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Feels Persons Made Film Actors Watches Wonderful Television Performances Distinction Great Actors Film Actors

Author:David Oyelowo

“Because 98 percent of our ideas are not great ideas, or everyone would be a billionaire. So yeah. That's something people have had a lot of experience in: being told our idea is bad or our performance is bad. I think that's the one common thread between all working actors is that they have a pretty thick skin - or you'd like to hope. You're used to rejection, that's for sure.”

People Thinking Ideas Would Be Used Actors Common Percent Skins Performances Yeah Rejection Thick Thread Great Idea Billionaire Thick Skin Common Threads

Author:Dax Shepard

“If my voice can resonate that way with kids, maybe it will resonate through 'Planes' as well, and they'll hear that little something that I'm giving to them, a performance that says to them, "I want to try." It's all interconnected. I don't think it's thinking too deeply about it.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Giving Trying Wells Littles Kids Voice Performances Planes Interconnected

Author:Dane Cook

“Performance capture is a genre of acting which is not going to go away, it's going to proliferate more and more. I'm passionate about it, and I love it. It's the most liberating tool an actor has, because you are not limited by your own physicality, look, or color of your eyes.”

Looks Eye Actors Acting Color Tools Performances Passionate Genre Going Away Capture Liberating Physicality

Author:Andy Serkis

“Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.”

Writing Art Performances Performing Performers Performance Art

Author:Clive James

“Effortless [performance] and improvisation are two different things. Just because it's improvised doesn't mean it's effortless and just because it's effortless doesn't necessarily mean it's improvised.”

Mean Two Different Performances Different Things Improvisation Effortless Two Different Things

Author:Christoph Waltz

“The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.”

People Ifs Want Form Careers Performances Entertainment Pinnacle Live Performance

Author:Bette Midler

“I prefer to have playback, but sometimes, you can't have that under most circumstances. First, it is expensive because you need a playback operator and secondly, it threatens a lot of directors. I only watch my performance. I see what is necessary for me so that I can see it right at the moment and I can fix it. That appeals to me a great deal.”

Needs Firsts I Can Sometimes Moments Deals Watches Circumstances Directors Performances Appeals Expensive Operators

Author:James Cromwell

“Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I see a moment that surprise me and I go, "Oh, that's not bad. That was nice."”

Sometimes Moments Happens Film Nice Shots Performances Surprise Fixed Surprise Me

Author:James Cromwell

“You can sit behind your computer and listen to music via a program or from the Internet and also watch performances on the Internet. There's motivation to sit at home. You don't have to get dressed up, or be social and for those old enough you don't risk DUI charges by drinking at home at the computer.”

Enough Home Motivation Social Behinds Watches Risk Internet Computer Program Performances Drinking Listening To Music Dressed Up Dui

Author:Steve Mahoney

“It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to open up in my comedy work and just go all out, take chances, and have fun with the performance aspect of that.”

Kind Self Problem Seems Able Past Fun Chance Comedy Strange Aspect Performances Having Fun Take A Chance Strange Things

Author:Amy Poehler

“When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment.”

Way Found Cases Havens Degrees Performances Mirrors Significant Significance Substitutes Void Alignment

Author:Richard Rohr

“There has to be a womp on the side of the head that defeats and undercuts this game of performance. It has to fall apart. Now unfortunately, that very often does not happen until what I call the second half of life, when there's been enough death in the family and you start experiencing your own physical deterioration.”

Doe Enough Happens Fall Games Sides Half Performances Defeat Falling Apart Deterioration

Author:Richard Rohr

“The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.”

Able Wish Capable Understood Performances Longing Flight Aviation

Book:Leonardo da Vinci

Source: Leonardo da Vinci

“James Gandolfini was a genius. Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of the greatest actors of this or any time... A great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes. I remember telling him many times, 'You don't get it. You're like Mozart.'”

Knows Inspirational Motivational Eye Remember Actors Deals Saws Genius Performances Smallest Sad Eyes

Author:David Chase

“I don't view interviewing as much of a performance. My whole life is in essence a performance but singing and dancing for television is an entirely different thing.”

Different Whole Life Is Views Television Singing Essence Performances Dancing Whole Life Different Things Singing And Dancing

Author:Lady Gaga

“I can't wait to design the performance. I want to make a moment that is about much more than me. Performing in space is such an honor. I want to challenge myself to come up with something that will not only bring everyone together but will also have a message of love that blasts into the beyond.”

Want I Can Moments Together Waiting Challenges Space Design Honor Messages Performances Come Up Performing Blast

Author:Lady Gaga

“Technology is neutral. You can use [it] to become frenetic and to go out of your mind. But you can also use technology to relax and improve performance. Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.”

Mind Self Use Technology Meditation Awareness Activity Performances Self Awareness Aids Relax Relaxation Dynamism

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the camera. Often what happens is, you'll get a newcomer in front of the camera and they'll freeze up or they imitate actors or other performances that they've admired and so they stop becoming themselves. And so my job as the director is just to always return them to what I first saw in them, which was simply an uncensored human being.”

People Firsts Humans Real Happens Jobs Actors Human Beings Saws Fronts Return Becoming Directors Performances Cameras Authenticity Freeze Newcomers

Author:Steven Spielberg

“Stanley Kubrick was very selective when he went into a close-up. Every director has his taste in a performance, but Stanley would explore a scene to find what was most interesting for him.”

Interesting Taste Scene Directors Performances Most Interesting Selective Stanley

Author:Tom Cruise

“There are more similarities than differences when it comes to preparation of a performance. You're using some lyrics, you have a relationship with them, they apply to different parts of your life and different circumstances, different memories, different stories you have in your head. You form personal relationships with the song. I think that's very similar, in a way, to prepping a character. You pour your own personality, in a sense, into the character, you sympathize with a character in a way that's similar to the way you might sympathize with a song.”

Thinking Way Different Character Stories Might Form Song Differences Memories Personality Circumstances Performances Preparation Similarity Personal Relationships

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“When I first started working on movies as a production assistant, we were shooting 65, 75, 85 days. I mean, granted some of those things were "Godzilla," "Deep Impact," and those kinds of things, but these days it's like 30-35 days or 40-45 days and you just feel like you're humping trying to get everything done. It's like "Move on, move on, move on!" That's not the way to get the best performances or the most interesting shots. You have to constantly balance schedule and quality of work. For me, that's the biggest thing.”

“I've always enjoyed and loved playing live. I relish and cherish it more than anything else because you never know what the performance is going to be.”

Knows Performances Enjoyed Cherish Relish

Author:Elton John

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