“There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible.” FeelsTwoThreePlanetsPerformancesInvincible Author:Kristi Yamaguchi
“Casting Captain America is really casting two roles... Steve Rogers before and after the transformation from 98 pound weakling to perfect physical specimen. I can't divulge how we're going to do it, but the performance will be Chris Evans from beginning to end.” I CanTwoEndsAmericaPerfectRolesPerformancesTransformationPoundsCaptainsCastingRogerBefore And AfterDivulge Author:Joe Johnston
“It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,' to increase public awareness to our cause. These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION - not elegant performance/ intellectual competition. We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause. All the bickering may make the one step forward... TWO STEPS BACKWARD???” PeopleShouldMayTwoIdeasHelpingActorsCausesAnimalStepsCreativeRightsAwarenessRevolutionIntellectualPerformancesIncreaseCompetitionNakedLiberationCourageousCriticizeAnimal RightsOrganizeElegantFurSteps ForwardBickeringDisheartening Author:Adela Popescu
“When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of dissonance and his disdain for the established forms. He reputedly turned to a fellow student during a performance of Beethoven with the words, "Let's go. He's starting to develop.” TwoAgeFormStudentsTenPerformancesTwentiesFellowsStartingParisTreatmentRebelDisdainDissonanceTwenty TwoConservatoryDebussy Author:Claude Debussy
“In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.” FirstsI CanTwoWholeFactsShowsRememberNightChoicesGivenWishCareersPerformancesCriticsEvening Author:Richard McCabe
“The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.” TwoRealProblemTogetherSoundHoursPerformancesCollaborationOrchestra Author:Andrew Bird
“My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.” PeopleLittlesTwoLastsSongFunInvolvedShotsPerformancesException Author:Tom Lehrer
“I've really enjoyed the independent film world. I've had a blast. But, the reality is that I really want to make bigger movies. If I could make movies that carry great characters and great performances and great pathos, and can have an explosion or two, that would be fine with me.” IfsWorldWantTwoCharacterRealityWould BeFilmFinePerformancesBiggerIndependentEnjoyedIf I CouldExplosionsBlastIndependent FilmGreat CharacterPathosGreat Performance Author:Matthew Lillard
“Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two more for his performance on 'Dancing with the Stars.'” YearsHas BeensTwoThreeHouseStarsLeaderPerformancesMajorityPrisonDancingFormerThree YearsTomsDelayDancing With The StarsMoney LaunderingMajority Leader Author:Jay Leno
“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.” GivingTwoImportantCharacterOne ThingActivityCapacityPerformancesScriptsScreensTheatrical Author:Toni Servillo
“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.” PeopleTwoChoicesStepsHellBedPerformancesOccasionsBetter Than YouStep UpGo To HellTwo 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.” PeopleLooksTwoWholeFilmNightOrderThreeBitsHoursHappenedGroupsMinutesPerformancesTheatreEvery Night Author:Kevin Spacey
“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.” MeanTwoDifferentPerformancesDifferent ThingsImprovisationEffortlessTwo Different Things Author:Christoph Waltz
“I was very happy with Vampire's Kiss, which in my opinion was almost like an independent laboratory to start realizing some of my more expressionistic dreams with film performance. Then using what I had learned in Vampire's Kiss and putting it into a very big action movie in the form of Face/Off with John Woo. If you look at those two movies back to back, you can see where I stole from my performance in Vampire's Kiss.” IfsLooksTwoDreamBigsActionFilmFacesFormRealizingOpinionKissingPerformancesIndependentVampireVery HappyLaboratoryAction Movie Author:Nicolas Cage
“Whereas a good player might do something really good in a game, a great player might do something two or three times in a row. That's what great players do, but they also work incredibly hard off the field in terms of the extra effort they've put into making sure their own performance gets better.” TwoHardMightThreeGamesTermEffortPlayerFieldsPerformancesGet BetterExtrasThree TimesExtra Effort Author:Warren Gatland
“I learned a lot about acting - watching not just myself but other actors and learning how to distinguish between two great takes. It's also about one's own taste in performance.” TwoActorsActingTastePerformances Author:Ralph Fiennes
“As an editor, you're constantly dealing with the best way to convey an exchange between two people. So when I'm shooting that, I'm just aware in the back of my head what an editor might want. And also, the problems editors run into when trying to edit performances - it helps me head that off at the pass a little.” PeopleWayWantTryingLittlesTwoHelpingProblemMightRunningPerformancesBest WayShootingHelp MeEditorsEdits Author:Ed Helms
“Technology has certainly reduced performance differences among drivers. Whereas a talented driver could get a half-second out of every lap in the past, nowadays talent makes up for only about one or two tenths of a second. But the driver is still the key factor.” StillsTwoPastDifferencesHalfTechnologyTalentKeysPerformancesFactorsDriversLap Author:Michael Schumacher
“If a player is not performing, there are two ways of looking at it. You wait for performance to come, or maybe the moment has arrived where you have to change. I could go either way.” IfsWayTwoMomentsWaitingPlayerPerformancesPerformingTwo Ways Author:Jose Mourinho
“When you choose a villain, you need something visually exciting. And when you have someone like Jamie Foxx... you want to make sure the guy with the mask and the guy without the mask are delivering two different performances.” WantNeedsTwoDifferentGuyPerformancesExcitingMaskVillainYou ChooseDeliveringJamie Author:Avi Arad
“I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance of a piece, no matter how long ago or where it was written, is always a new production, something that comes alive in the present. And it doesn't matter if the piece was written two or three hundred years ago if it is alive in us.” IfsThinkingYearsLongTwoMatterPastThreeToo MuchPiecesAliveWrittenHundredYears AgoPerformancesProductionsLong AgoLive In The Present Author:David Finckel
“Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.” TwoProblemLastsLawNumbersCostPercentPerformancesThirds Author:Norman Ralph Augustine
“The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people (20 per cent of the audience) laughed; one was Chinese, the other, whom I couldn't see, might have been an escaped hyena. This laughless francophobic comedy stars its co-scriptwriter, Steve Martin, in what is, by my reckoning, his eighth lousy remake since 1989.” PeopleHas BeensTwoReasonMightStarsAudienceSawsComedyPerformancesPressesChineseLaughedCentsMight Have BeenRemakesReckoningPanthersHyenasPink Panther Author:Philip French
“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
“I'm criticizing the way they are perceived. I was going through a book of Marina Abramovic and Ulay's 1970s performance work the other day. These people did two, even three Documentas or Venice Biennales over the course of a decade without any fuss. They would just treat it as any of their other engagements, with the same level of dignity and commitment they'd reserve for a one-day event in a small gallery on the Austrian mountains.” PeopleWayTwoBookThreeCoursesLevelsEventsOne DayMountainCommitmentDignityPerformancesTreatsDecadesCriticizeEngagementReservesGalleryVenice Author:Maurizio Cattelan
“Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It would seem that each medium has absorbed the other, leaving the photographic residing everywhere, but nowhere in particular.” TwoSeemsPastMediaParticularPaintingPhotographyPerformancesLeavingDecadesBoundariesMediumsSculptureOver The Past Book:Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History Source: Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History
“The nice thing about live performance is that I've never, ever been let down. Partly I'm lucky that my audience self-selects itself. Generally they know what they're in for, and generally we all just like each other and get along. But I always find one or two or a dozen really interesting people in the audience who make the show different. And that's one of the things I really like about performing.” PeopleKnowsTwoDifferentSelfShowsInterestingAudienceNiceLuckyPerformancesPerformingDozenReally InterestingNice ThingsLet DownLive Performance Author:John Hodgman
“People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.” PeopleTwoMomentsHappensAttentionActivityIdealsPerformancesReactionsPay AttentionFixedListenersTransport Author:John Cage
“But, working with directors whose history is in performance, I feel like there's a different kind of focus, as opposed to directors who are more prone to being really technically proficient or visual. I feel like there are two schools of both, and a director needs to have both.” NeedsFeelsKindTwoDifferentSchoolFocusDirectorsPerformancesVisualsBeing RealDifferent Kinds Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase of the show within fixed cue points, but at the same time there is a constant result that we are trying to achieve each night while performing and operating our system - quite similar in spirit to a broadway show for example: If you go see a musical two nights in a row, the performances are different yet similar.” IfsTryingTwoDifferentShowsSpiritNightLevelsResultsAchieveExamplePerformancesConstantMusicalPatternsPerformingFixedPhasesBroadwayImprovisationSampleLoopsShuffleBroadway Shows Author:Thomas Bangalter
“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.” GivingLongTwoKnownFeetAreasPerformancesExcitingBrilliantSquaresBrilliant Ideas Author:Keith Richards
“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.” TwoPiecesProgressJourneyPerformancesMuseumsFrankSuspendedSpiralsDreamySocratic Author:Jerry Saltz
“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.” TwoPlayKidsSchoolGamesParentMissingPerformancesMajoritySoccerHere And ThereSchool Plays Author:Simon Sinek
“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.” WayTwoCharacterFilmYoungNightBitsWeekMinutesScenePerformancesSevenAthleteEightStorytellingGet UpCraftsPerformersArcsStamina Author:Kevin Spacey
“Ranger declined the butterscotch pudding, not wanting to disrupt the consistency of his blood sugar level. I had two puddings and coffee, choosing to keep my pancreas at peak performance. Use it or lose it is my philosophy.” TwoPhilosophyUseLosesLevelsBloodPerformancesCoffeeSugarConsistencyRangersPuddingBlood SugarPeak PerformanceUse It Or Lose ItPancreasButterscotch Book:Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel Source: Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel
“This year I spent two months in Australia, and I did all the training camps in London. It was a really hard winter because I want to give the best performance of my career at the Olympic Games! That is the only title I'm missing and I will do my best to take it!” WantGivingYearsTwoHardGamesCareersMissingMonthsTrainingPerformancesWinterAthleteLondonTitlesAustraliaCampsTwo MonthsOlympic GamesBest PerformanceTraining Camp Author:Peter Kauzer
“You know, for me, the realization that two people should have the right to form a sacred union regardless of their gender was strengthened when I saw a performance of the play The Normal Heart in 1985. After feeling the love those two men had for each other, I dare anybody not to want them to get married by the end.” PeopleKnowsMenWantShouldHeartTwoEndsPlayFeelingsFormSawsGayNormalMarriedShould HavePerformancesSacredUnionsDareGenderRealizationGay Marriage Author:Barbra Streisand
“Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record” ThinkingKnowsTwoMatterEyeGamesDifferencesRecordsPlayerWeekJudgingNeededToolsPerformancesBaseballAverageCoachesNakedVisibleMistakenTwo WeeksInadequateEvaluateVolleyballBaseball PlayerBaseball GamesNaked Eyes Author:Michael Lewis