#performance

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. ↗

— James Taylor

#ahead #any #away #because #before

I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#directed #films #get #gone #good

I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#between #difference #first #generation #get

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#ephemeral #every #ghost #gone #i

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

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will,’ as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#belief #determination #faith #goals #imagination

If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother? ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#effort #extreme #goals #life #performance

I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#love

On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing. ↗

— Jean Stapleton

#beginning #day #did #end #had

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#because #christmas #cole #gotta #holidays