The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.
Learning and performance will become one and the same thing. Everything you say about learning will be about performance. People will get the point that learning is everything.
Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.
I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.
I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.
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.
It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.
Every performance is completely its own thing.
Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.
For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.
Check out the albums,. . . Check out the live performances. That's the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing.
I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.
The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance
Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on set - if you don't get it on the day, in the moment, on set, in front of the camera, with the director and the actors. The emotional content of the scene and the acting choices.
Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else.
I make 50 cents for showing up. . . and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.
Early practice is vital so that performances became totally ingrained and flow from the subconscious.
No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.