I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the camera. Often what happens is, you'll get a newcomer in front of the camera and they'll freeze up or they imitate actors or other performances that they've admired and so they stop becoming themselves. And so my job as the director is just to always return them to what I first saw in them, which was simply an uncensored human being.
God’s anointing is not based on your performance, but if you don’t open the Word, you’re stupid, because that’s where the words of life are.
I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.
History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.
What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your pictures you automatically change your performance
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
You mustn't judge a politician by talk. You have to judge them by performance.
You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.
All you owe the public is a good performance.
If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.
For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.
Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve.
I'm not impressed by your performance.
The soil says, don't bring me your need, bring me your seed.
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.
I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.
The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.
Every performance is completely its own thing.
For me, when you're casting known talent, you're not just casting their performances. You're casting the public's relationship with them, their public images to a degree.
How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.