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A director really doesn't deal with performance that much, especially if you deal with great actors. Their work is the performance. What you're helping them with is all the stuff they cannot be in control of.
Zal Batmanglij
Work
Great
You
Director
Control
Performance
Stuff
Deal
Cannot
Them
Much
Really
Helping
Actor
I can imagine Dad joking about how hard it'd be to get an actor to give back when it's hard enough to ask them to give a good performance.
Zelda Williams
Good
Enough
Back
About
Give
Joking
Performance
How
Get
Them
Ask
Hard
Dad
Actor
Imagine
I did drama at school and when I was doubling Xena, one time for my birthday mom and dad bought me an acting course 'cause I've always liked the performance side of anything.
Zoe Bell
Time
Mom
Birthday
Me
School
Cause
Drama
Side
One Time
Bought
Performance
Liked
Course
Always
Did
Anything
Doubling
Acting
Mom And Dad
Dad
My aim, as always, is to deliver a good and consistent performance across the year. That is the goal for any driver.
Robert Kubica
Good
Year
Aim
Consistent
Deliver
Driver
Performance
Always
Goal
Any
Across
I am thrilled beyond words that The Academy has recognized my performance in Steve McQueen's '12 Years a Slave,' and I am deeply proud to be in the company of my fellow nominees.
Lupita Nyong'o
Words
I Am
Recognized
Thrilled
Performance
Beyond
Steve
Academy
Fellow
Proud
Am
Years
McQueen
Company
Deeply
Slave
There are a lot of parallels between being a mutual fund manager and being a general manager. Both in the financial markets and in baseball, we're dealing with a world where uncertainty reigns. We're trying to predict the future performance of human beings. It's a fundamental difficulty for which we both have to account.
Paul DePodesta
Future
World
Financial
Predict
Difficulty
Markets
Financial Markets
Parallels
Mutual
Mutual Fund
General
Uncertainty
Both
General Manager
Performance
Between
Dealing
Lot
Account
Trying
Manager
Human
Being
Where
Human Beings
Which
Beings
Baseball
Fund
Reigns
Fundamental
If someone really takes a risk, it doesn't get dismissed. That's what happened when the Oscar was won posthumously by Heath Ledger, who did one of the definitive villain performances of all time. But it really has to be exceptional in defining everything we previously knew about the actress or the actor.
Robert Downey, Jr.
Time
Everything
Defining
Definitive
All-Time
About
Someone
Risk
Exceptional
Knew
Takes
Performance
Won
Get
Did
Heath
Happened
Really
Dismissed
Who
Villain
Actor
Actress
Oscar
I enjoy singing soulful melodies because they add that extra zing to your performance.
Javed Ali
Singing
Enjoy
Extra
Add
Melodies
Performance
Because
Soulful
Your
Not that long ago - in my parents' lives, in fact - actors in minstrel shows wore blackface to mimic and mock African Americans. These performances were based in contempt and gave people an opportunity to act out their prejudices.
Wayne Messam
People
Opportunity
Long
Parents
Mimic
Gave
Out
Fact
Performance
Contempt
Were
Mock
American
African
African Americans
In Fact
Wore
Prejudices
Act
Shows
Actor
Based
Lives
I am constantly analysing my performances and I tend to focus more on things I haven't done as well as I'd have liked.
Gary Cahill
I Am
Focus
Analysing
Constantly
More
Tend
Performance
Liked
Well
Am
Done
Things
After 'Tina Snow' dropped, I had so many performances and so many appearances, and I'm in the studio all the time.
Megan Thee Stallion
Time
Had
Studio
Dropped
Performance
Snow
Tina
After
Many
Appearances
It's fine with me if people want to applaud between movements of a concerto. It doesn't bother me - it's part of performance experience.
Hilary Hahn
Me
Experience
People
Fine
Bother
Part
Performance
Between
Concerto
Movements
Want
Applaud
When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.'
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Me
People
Signs
Pay
All-Around
IBM
Individual
Performance
Around
How
Arrived
Were
Get
Asked
Paid
Team
Based
I had a great moment with Michael Buble where I asked him if he could teach me to sing like him and he said why we don't sing together, so we did! It was great because my wife and children came to watch his performance.
Michael McIntyre
Great
Me
Together
Wife
Could
Had
He
Performance
Like
Sing
Him
Because
Said
Came
His
Michael
Did
Where
Children
Asked
Teach
Moment
Why
Watch
When things are tough, French athletes tend to pull out great performances.
Didier Deschamps
Great
Tough
Out
Athletes
Tend
Performance
French
Things
Pull
All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
Vincent D'Onofrio
Work
Day
Struggle
Achieve
Our
Lies
Percent
Never
Never Stop
Performance
Until
Audience
Get
Trying
Die
Gets
Stop
Where
Us
Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
Me
You
People
School
Made
Nervous
Parents
Kid
Those
Performance
Come
Calms
Always
Auditorium
Same
Being
Ask
Your
Cool
Cool People
Dad
Element
Set
Putting up a great performance against Lamont Peterson will skyrocket me. The goal is to become the No. 1 welterweight in the division, so if I keep beating these guys around me and then fight Keith Thurman, people will rate me as No. 1 because I've beat the top names, and he's been inactive.
Errol Spence Jr.
Great
Me
Fight
People
Will
Become
Top
Rate
Guys
Beat
Beating
Division
He
Putting
Thurman
Performance
Names
Because
Around
Been
Goal
Up
Against
Then
Skyrocket
Keep
The function of arts centers goes far beyond being places for performance. They might not be explicitly religious, but they are civic and social spaces.
Santiago Calatrava
Religious
Civic
Performance
Beyond
Goes
Arts
Being
Spaces
Centers
Places
Social
Explicitly
Might
Far
Function
For me, rehearsal is only about blocking and pacing; it's not about performance.
Robert Eggers
Me
About
Only
Performance
Blocking
Pacing
Rehearsal
There's always going to be people who will criticize my performance. Sometimes, it gets irritating. Sometimes I just brush it off and say these people don't know what they are talking about.
Terence Crawford
People
Sometimes
Will
Say
Criticize
About
Brush
Performance
Know
Talking
Always
Off
Gets
Going
Just
Irritating
Who
My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
Taylor Swift
Me
World
Seen
Every
Everybody
Tells
Constant
Degrees
Outfit
He
Performance
New
Cheerleader
Knows
Cathy
Greatest
Friendly
Six
Social
Whole
Coolest
Dad
Ever
Butterfly
Looking at Capitol's performance over a 22-year period, I figure they were focused three years out of the 22 I worked for them.
Steve Miller
Three
Looking
Focused
Out
Performance
Over
Period
Were
Years
Them
Worked
Capitol
Figure
In a film like 'Kannathil Muthamittal,' I can't have a Rajnikanth or a Kamal Haasan. If you have a star, the expectation of the film is different. So, you cast according to the subject of the film. Some films are best done with stars because it gives you a base on which if you can get the correct performance, you can reach higher.
Mani Ratnam
Best
You
Expectation
Stars
Films
Correct
Some
Cast
Gives
Higher
Performance
Like
Reach
Because
Subject
According
Get
Done
Different
Which
Base
Star
Film
Writing 'If Chloe Can' has taken me on an amazing journey: from launching the event at Downing Street, to a performance to 1,000 inner-city school girls at a West End theatre, then to an audience of hundreds more at the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Karla Crome
Journey
Me
Theatre
Writing
School
Amazing
Girl
Chemistry
Society
Hundreds
Launching
More
Taken
Performance
Audience
West
End
Chloe
Then
Downing
Event
Street
Royal
People like Little Mix... they've got a big lot of choreography that they need to do so it's difficult to sing and dance at the same time. I think if they've got to do a big performance with loads of visuals behind, they need to possibly mime at some point.
Jonas Blue
Time
People
Dance
Big
Difficult
Think
Mime
I Think
Possibly
Visuals
Some
Point
Performance
Like
Sing
Got
Mix
Lot
Same
Behind
Same Time
Little
Choreography
Loads
Need
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