#performance

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news. ↗

— John le Carre

#better #between #contemptuous #demonstrated #digest

So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#down #end #end product #in other words #live

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#better #comedian #comedians #everything #feel

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#better #head #much #performances #stage

I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#complex #demands #figure #film #films

I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#appealed #criminal #fun #i #just

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. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#acting #actor #director #directors #enough

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#acting #ahead #always #cares #casting

No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance. ↗

— Fred Schneider

#differently #each #little #old #old songs

If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment. ↗

— Mohammed Morsi

#american culture #chinese #culture #egyptian #german