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Some actors are frightened and concentrating so hard on their own performance, you don't feel that anything you do makes any difference. They're just kicking a ball against a wall, so to speak.
Mark Rylance
You
Speak
Own
Kicking
Some
Feel
Performance
Concentrating
Makes
Ball
Frightened
Wall
Any
Just
Difference
Anything
Against
Hard
Actor
If I'm focusing on playing and enjoying the song, then it always goes well. I get lost in the song, and the performance is so much better. If the focus becomes not making a mistake, then it just feels rigid to me.
Marketa Irglova
Me
Mistake
Song
Better
Focus
Lost
Focusing
Rigid
Performance
Feels
Well
Becomes
Always
Making
Get
Goes
Just
Then
Much
Enjoying
Playing
My business is to perform on the pitch, to put in performances and that is what I want to do.
Marko Arnautovic
Business
Put
Perform
Performance
Pitch
Want
Of course, you try to achieve some things to provide for you and your family, and your club can pay you whatever they pay you. But, for me, it's important to be healthy, stay on the pitch and give everything to make performances. This is priority number one for me.
Marko Arnautovic
Family
Me
You
Try
Achieve
Important
Healthy
Whatever
Club
Pay
Everything
Stay
Some
Some Things
Give
Performance
Make
Course
Priority
Provide
Pitch
Your
Things
Number
I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the kinds of things that human beings go through. I love to see spontaneity and 'inevitability.' How it gets there is going to shock the hell out of me, but it will get there somehow.
Martin Landau
Love
Me
Trust
Will
Hell
Out
Clarity
Kinds
See
Somehow
Through
Performance
Spontaneity
Well
How
Inevitability
Go
Shock
Get
Gets
Going
Lack
Human
Human Beings
Beings
Things
The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.
Martin Van Buren
Faith
Good
Obligations
Every
Other
States
Tribes
Indian
Insisted
Instance
Performance
Like
Fulfilled
Good Faith
United
United States
Treaty
People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.
Marvin Bower
Education
People
Personality
Performance
Judged
Personal
Traits
Nationality
Should
Skills
Basis
I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.
Mary J. Blige
You
Cider
Honey
Vocal
Red
Performance
Know
Lemon
Either
Help
Apple
Vinegar
Vines
Things
Watching boxer Dingko Singh's performance at the Asian Games, Bangkok, where he won gold, was the defining moment. I was 15 and enjoyed sports more than anything else. Singh's performance changed my life and inspired me to follow boxing.
Mary Kom
Life
Me
Sports
My Life
Changed
Else
Defining
Defining Moment
Follow
More
More Than Anything
Inspired
He
Performance
Boxer
Boxing
Won
Than
Bangkok
Gold
Where
Anything
Anything Else
Asian
Games
Moment
Enjoyed
Watching
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.
Mary McDonnell
Life
Experience
People
Vocabulary
Percentage
Emotional
Emotionally
Part
Primary
Performance
Intellectually
Experienced
Translated
Then
Planet
Certain
Who
Actor
Precisely at the moment when an athletic career is most on the line and fan perceptions of a Herculean, supra-human performance are highest, an athlete's brain may be at its most vulnerable.
Mary Pilon
Athlete
Athletic
Perceptions
Highest
Performance
Most
Vulnerable
Line
Brain
Precisely
May
Fan
Moment
Career
Acting can be very solitary, even if you're in a scene with someone else, because you worry about your own performance and if you look good.
Masi Oka
Good
You
Own
Else
Worry
Solitary
About
Someone
Scene
Performance
Look
Because
Very
Acting
Your
Even
It's a holistic process for me during a show. I'm always focusing on the technical aspects of my voice. I try to make my voice do what I want. One big thing I do to improve on each show is to listen back to performances on CD while on tour.
Matisyahu
Me
Try
Big
Back
Focusing
Voice
Tour
Performance
Make
Always
Improve
Listen
Big Thing
Want
Process
While
Holistic
Aspects
Show
Each
Technical
Thing
I guess that I was always considered a little too weird for the standup clubs and probably too jokey for doing performance art and those places where those are done.
Matt Besser
Art
Too
Guess
Considered
Those
Weird
Performance
Performance Art
Always
Doing
Done
Where
Places
Clubs
Little
Standup
Many improv groups give off the same positive annoying vibe that I associate with Christian Young Life groups with shows that more resemble children playing than a comedy performance.
Matt Besser
Positive
Life
Comedy
Young
Christian
Give
More
Performance
Annoying
Off
Than
Improv
Same
Vibe
Children
Resemble
Many
Groups
Shows
Playing
Associate
I love 'Jaws,' and I think Robert Shaw's performance in 'Jaws' is one of the best screen performances of all time. I am a massive Robert Shaw fan. I think he's a brilliant, brilliant talent and we lost him way before his time.
Matt Bomer
Love
Time
Best
Brilliant
Lost
Before
Think
Way
All-Time
He
Performance
Talent
Robert
Massive
Him
Am
His
Screen
Fan
Jaws
In the end, it's about the reality. You want something that's believable in the performances; you want something that's believable in the storytelling, in the writing. You just want to connect to something that you feel is real.
Matt Czuchry
You
Reality
Writing
About
Something
Feel
Performance
Real
End
Just
Want
In The End
Storytelling
Connect
Believable
A lot of people don't know who they are as a wrestler. Even people that walk into the doors of the Performance Center. They might be world-class athletes or models, but they don't know who they are in the ring.
Matt Riddle
People
Walk
Doors
World-Class
Ring
Athletes
Wrestler
Performance
Know
Lot
Models
The Doors
Center
Might
Who
Even
I had daydreamed through many performances of Swan Lake, thinking the dancing tutus only ever conveyed one aspect of swans: their beauty gliding on water. I wondered what it would be like to use male dancers and bring out swans' aggressive, muscular side.
Matthew Bourne
Water
Beauty
Aggressive
Thinking
Side
Dancers
Dancing
One Aspect
Out
Would
Would-Be
Only
Through
Had
Performance
Gliding
Like
Male
Wondered
Lake
Swan
Swans
Conveyed
Aspect
Use
Many
Ever
Bring
Muscular
A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks - correct music, slowly pushing in - that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I've always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.
Matthew Gray Gubler
Music
Good
Relationship
Director
Better
Will
Seen
Become
Closed
Correct
Tricks
Slowly
Somehow
Scene
Pushing
Performance
Stunning
Knows
Always
Off
Just
Little
Fantastic
Working
Who
Even
Actor
Symbiotic
Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else's life. That's what's fun about sharing art.
Matthew McConaughey
Life
Work
Hope
Art
You
People
Somebody
Own
Painting
Else
See
About
Something
Sharing
Performance
Denominator
Any
Artist
Common
Common Denominator
Fun
A lot of games and voiceover projects, they're not giving the actor a lot of context. The actor, no matter how good they are, might not be able to deliver a performance that fits the action.
Matthew Mercer
Good
Matter
Giving
Action
Projects
Able
Voiceover
Deliver
Performance
How
Context
Lot
Fits
Might
Games
Actor
Personally, my favorite 'meat' song is 'We Got It Right.' As soon as it comes on, it transports me to a different place. And I'm really proud of our performance in the studio on that one.
Matthew Ramsey
Me
Song
Our
Favorite
Studio
Soon
Performance
Got
Proud
Different
Place
Personally
Really
Different Place
Transports
Meat
Right
Every time I watch a performance, I'm disgusted with how I've skated. It's very hurtful for me.
Max Aaron
Time
Me
Every
Every Time
Hurtful
Performance
How
Very
Disgusted
Skated
Watch
Every time I see a live performance of something, I'm like, 'I want to be doing that!'
Megan Hilty
Time
Live
Every
Every Time
See
Something
Performance
Like
Doing
Want
Live Performance
I think the 'Lethal Weapon' movies contain my favorite performances. It sounds really crummy, I know, but although the work doesn't look hard, it's difficult to create 'effortless' on screen.
Mel Gibson
Work
Difficult
Think
On-Screen
Favorite
Weapon
Contain
Crummy
Performance
Know
Look
Although
Sounds
Effortless
Screen
Movies
Create
Really
Hard
Lethal
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