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" A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her. "

" Accents influence a performance. If you look at Stanislavski, he says work from the in to the out, and I probably overall work the other way. I find an accent and a mood, and that influences the character massively. "

" A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater. "

" A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance. "

" 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

" After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make. "

Christian Slater

" After the comedy boom of the '80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and could do in order to be successful touring comedians, and those were mainly observational comedians who had a very strict structure of what made an act, and I think it was very performance oriented. "

" A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures. "

Susan Strasberg

" A guy my size needs a tremendous amount of protein on a daily basis, just to maintain peak size, strength, and performance. Basically, that means six or seven small meals a day, so I depend on protein supplementation. "

" A Las Vegas show is all-round entertainment. Which means there's some singing, some dancing, some magic, some drama - everything is rolled into that one performance. "

" A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing. "

" All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art. "

" All I can focus on is my performance, and that's going to help me be successful, no matter where I am. "

" All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it. "

George Thorogood

" All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language. "

Richard Foreman

" All types of magic performance have a purpose. Even if it's an amateur who's trying out slight of hand on YouTube. "

" All you owe the public is a good performance. "

Humphrey Bogart

" A lot of companies lock up for a few weeks once a year for performance reviews. But there's a way to collect feedback in real time from Slack so that by the end of the year, you've already stored up all of this information. "

Stewart Butterfield

" A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus. "

" Although 'Mockingjay 2' grew $650 million at the worldwide box office, its domestic performance fell short of our expectations. "

" A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. "

" A movie contains literally tens of thousands of ideas. They're in the form of every sentence; in the performance of each line; in the design of characters, sets, and backgrounds; in the locations of the camera; in the colors, the lighting, the pacing. "

" An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. "

" An actor's performance can be improved or shaped - or ruined - by what takes you use, how long you are on the actor's face, what line you put on the other actor's face, and when do you use close-ups or wide shots or two shots. "

Thelma Schoonmaker

" An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance. "

" And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance. "

" An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor. "

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