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

— Alan Bates

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I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

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Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection. ↗

— Alban Berg

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Conductors are performers. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song. ↗

— Frank Black

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If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you. ↗

— Pippa Evans

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Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience. ↗

— Marc Davis

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

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When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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