#performance

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

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I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance. ↗

— Erik Estrada

#gives #honest #i #like #performance

From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

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You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance. ↗

— Eric Cantona

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. ↗

— Aristotle

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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did. ↗

— Alan Arkin

#analyze #certain #certain things #did #eight

Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy. ↗

— John Astin

#easy #express #felt #get #how

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

— Red Auerbach

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You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

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Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting. ↗

— Jack Bowman

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