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An actor should be judged by his performance only.
James Dean
Only
Performance
Judged
His
Should
Actor
You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.
James Dean
You
Eyes
Long
Sees
Performance
Performing
Make
Audience
Real
Hamlet
While
Your
People think 'Performance' blew my mind... my mind was blown long before that.
James Fox
People
Mind
Long
Before
Think
Performance
Blew
Blown
'Performance' gave me doubts about my way of life. Before that, I had been completely involved in the more bawdy side of the film business. But after that, everything changed.
James Fox
Life
Me
Business
Before
Changed
Gave
Side
Everything
Way
About
More
Had
Performance
Involved
Been
After
Doubts
Film
Film Business
As an actor, you can go in, and you give your best performance, but if you hand that performance to ten different directors and ten different editors, you get ten different movies.
James Marsden
Best
You
Give
Ten
Directors
Performance
Editors
Go
Hand
Get
Different
Movies
Your
Actor
It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on.
James Marsters
Art
Back
Would
About
Somehow
Myopic
Performance
Performance Art
House
Grade
Front
Either
Connected
Fourth
While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.
James Nesbitt
Think
Bit
Some
Given
Could
Never
Performance
Been
Braver
Where
While
In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.
James Surowiecki
Rage
Setting
Too
Took
Corporate
Harshly
High
Only
Performance
Days
Executives
Felt
Judging
Lot
Option
Wall
Wall Street
Flak
Bar
Companies
Downsizing
Street
Slash
Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.
James Taylor
Work
You
Yourself
Long
Before
Live
Release
Promote
Impact
Performance
Make
Because
American
Any
Size
Place
Themselves
Ages
Away
On the performance end, I take a lot of advice from my sister.
Jamie Lynn Spears
Advice
Sister
Take
Performance
Lot
End
Generally in the theatre, you spend some portion of the performance convincing people they have done the right thing in buying the ticket, that this is the play they want to watch.
Jamie Parker
You
Theatre
People
Spend
Right Thing
Some
Generally
Performance
Ticket
Done
Want
The Right Thing
Convincing
Play
Portion
Right
Thing
Watch
Buying
If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works.
Jane Byrne
Government
Will
Ourselves
Would
City
Performance
Forever
Expect
Same
Same Level
Us
Require
Works
Level
I still get thrilled by the energy that is a live performance, the fear and the panic and the electricity that happens on the night. I think jolting myself every once in a while with that fear is a good thing for me.
Jane Krakowski
Myself
Good
Me
Fear
Energy
Live
Every
Think
Panic
Once
Thrilled
Good Thing
Performance
Still
Get
Happens
While
Electricity
Live Performance
Thing
Night
I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.
Janet McTeer
You
Thought
See
About
Only
Performance
Know
Always
Person
Then
Watch
But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.
Jared Polis
School
Parents
Research
Our
Nutrition
Kids
Eat
Student
Clear
Performance
Between
Schools
Sure
Because
Priorities
Making
Connection
Shows
Right
As a child, I used to 'torture' other kids by making them be in my shows. I would sell tickets to neighbors and organize performances.
Jasmila Zbanic
Other
Other Kids
Kids
Neighbors
Would
Torture
Performance
Tickets
Making
Sell
Child
Them
Used
Organize
Shows
You need to find the size of performance that's appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene.
Jason Alexander
You
Appropriate
Find
Scene
Performance
Material
Size
Shot
Need
I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I'm not a one-man band.
Jason Bateman
Art
Big
Band
Think
Too
Those
Admire
One-Man
Guys
Take
Performance
Performance Art
Any
Much
Swings
Actually
Shy
I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'
Jason Dohring
Love
Me
People
Matter
Long
Gritty
Too
Way
Would
Wow
See
Some
More
Could
Perform
Performance
Like
Learn
Proud
Go
Get
Just
Want
Theater
Movies
If I Could
Such A Way
Four
Millions
Millions Of People
One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.
Jason Fried
Work
Judge
Benefits
Secret
Someone
Performance
Remote
Becomes
Yardstick
Itself
Workers
Using
I know it's financially lucrative to go out on my own, but I don't like it. It's really hard work, just the performance aspect. I like people who look like they've been together for too long and sound like they've been together too long. I like rock n' roll bands.
Jason Isbell
Work
Hard Work
Together
People
Long
Own
Too
Out
Financially
My Own
Performance
Like
Know
Look
Rock
Sound
Go
Rock-N-Roll
Been
Bands
Roll
Just
Really
Aspect
Hard
Who
Lucrative
Porsche is a driver's car - a performance car. That was funny - here's this awesome car, but it's got no cup holders.
Jason McCoy
Funny
Car
Awesome
Driver
Performance
Got
Cup
Porsche
Here
I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me and just said 'You are doing your own thing and I am proud of you.'
Jason Ritter
Me
You
Made
Own
Saw
London
Had
He
Knew
Performance
Said
Proud
Am
Doing
Just
After
Notes
Really
Your
Dad
Thing
What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.
Javier Bardem
Time
Best
Nothing
See
Russell
Gladiator
Performance
Does
Scott
Did
Same
Maybe
Who
Ridley Scott
Play
Amount
Chance
The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.
Javier Bardem
Made
Characters
Fact
Performance
Like
Make
Being
Mean
Watch
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