1284 Performance Quotes for You to Enjoy

We try to get the best performance out of the artists. There is no point in saying to them, 'You're useless.' Andrew Lloyd Webber

Saying Best You Try Out No Point Point Performance Get Artists Them Useless

From Nike, we buy victory. From Under Armour, we buy protection. From Lululemon, we buy zen. From Patagonia, we buy conservation. From BMW, we buy performance. Andy Dunn

Buy Protection Victory Nike Performance Armour Zen Conservation

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline. Andy Grove

History You Change Dramatically At Least One Rise Point Miss Performance Least Any The History Of Decline Next Next Level Moment Company Level Start

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character. Andy Serkis

Good Day Character Me End Of The Day Action Live Those Characters See Only Good Story Written Performance Between End Role Just Difference Wants Story Scripts Explore Good Character Who Live Action Capture Actor Playing

I have a company in the U.K., a performance-capture studio. We're looking to push the boundaries of performance-capture technology in film and video games, but also in live theater, using real-time performance capture with actors onstage, and combining that with holographic imagery. Andy Serkis

For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance. Andy Serkis

Everybody thinks performance capture is about thrashing around and doing a lots of movement, but it's actually about being able to contain and think and be believed in a close-up, as much as anything else. Andy Serkis

My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance. Andy Serkis

Day You Take Performance Get Acting Capture Enhance

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance. Andy Serkis

Technology Recording Way Performance Genre Another Another Way Just Capture Actor

What you can do with visual effects is enhance the look of the character, but the actual integrity of the emotional performance and the way the character's facial expressions work, that is what is going to be created on the day with other actors and the director. Andy Serkis

I've done a lot of films that are purely live-action roles, and even if I hadn't come across performance capture as a technology, I think I'd always consider myself a sort of mercurial actor. Andy Serkis

Myself Technology Think Films Consider Purely Performance Come Sort Always Lot Roles Done Across Even Capture Actor

My natural bent is to have an overabundance of energy, and motion-capture essentializes your every breath, your every move. Seeing yourself through that mask, you realize how far you can pull back and make the performance even more powerful. Andy Serkis

The thing is, I don't just take roles because they're performance capture. Andy Serkis

Take Performance Because Roles Just Capture Thing

I want to do something original rather than interpret someone else's performance, which is always the risk - even if it's only in a subconscious way. I want to concentrate on giving my own fresh interpretation. Aneurin Barnard

We all have levels of performance. Angela Lansbury

Performance Levels

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.' Ani DiFranco

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My greatest acting performance was pretending to enjoy the movie 'Selma'. Ann Coulter

Pretending Enjoy Performance Greatest Movie Acting

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal. Anna Friel

Once Onstage Performance Days Been Rehearsal Four

When I just started my career, of course, I always try to look very good, and I changes the dress all the time on the performance. And people came to me and said, 'Oh, beautiful dress. Your dress is so beautiful, and you look so beautiful.' That's it. And I was so upset nobody saying anything about my singing. Anna Netrebko

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I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these little askings, about the lights and costumes. It's not the diva speaking. It's the artist who knows how it has to be done. Anna Netrebko

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As an actor, I always think that if someone does pick up a phone during a performance, something dire must be happening in their lives that is more important than theatre - some kind of tragedy they were attending to, or something. It's very uncomfortable if you don't know why they would pick up a phone and talk in the middle of a show. Annaleigh Ashford

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I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance. Anne Dudley

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