Performance Quotes

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If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute.… — Allen Carr
My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless… — Billy Crudup
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… — Casey Abrams
The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring… — Mangosuthu Buthelezi
When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the… — Lizzy Caplan
Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of… — Ricky Jay
When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged.… — Robbie Coltraine
Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it… — Robert Carlyle
I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience.… — Simon Callow
I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's. — Arthur Darvill
A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work… — Sean Durkin
I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance. — Anne Dudley
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… — Howard Dean
I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love… — Jonathan Demme
From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same… — Joe Eszterhas
I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a… — Danai Gurira
You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else. — Ioan Gruffudd
I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any… — Troy Garity
It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to… — Alex Grey
We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are… — Chuck Grassley

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