Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
A lot of different factors go into making your performance a good one.
I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.
My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.
Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.
Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.
For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.
It's a challenge to grow professionally and move up the corporate ladder when you're not receiving feedback on your performance.
I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich' or 'North Country.' They were both so amazing and so inspiring. I would love to touch someone in the way their performances touched me.
You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops in full stage gear.
The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
I do an improv show on Sunday where we have a class, and then afterwards we go and do a live performance in front of an audience.
I'd like to think my performance is today. I never try to - it's so, as you know, watching me, I have a beginning, middle and ending. But every night the show changes and I relate to an audience and I relate to the young people.
You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.
My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.
From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.
I'd like to have a different look for every film. As an actor, I think I should put more emphasis on my performance than on my looks.
For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.
I loved being on Broadway, but performing has become exhausting, and I just don't want to live in New York anymore. I'm just sick of the competition in New York, the feeling that I always have to rehearse to keep up my performance. I don't feel like rehearsing, even though it should be my favorite thing in the world to do.
'Billy on the Street' is a persona. It's crafted; it has writers. It's a mixture of performance art and comedy.
I was dancing when I was acting as well. Actors generally dance in performances like in an award function.
When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction.
What I want is that I can match my performances during training so I can be satisfied with myself.
One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.
We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved.
I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.
I tell the people that hire us, if we don't get a standing ovation when we're finished with our performance, it's free - and we've always been paid.
When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.
It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.
I think if you want to make a performance authentic, there are a certain amount of leaps of faith into the unknown that you have to take. Otherwise, you're not really risking anything. I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.
What is true of ballet is no less true of the other lively arts. Change is built into their natures. You watch a performance, and then... it's gone.
I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.
As long as I give the best performance I can give, I know I can't do any more.
I've had over a dozen models come in and pose fro me live for these new Cirque pieces. Cirque is a world-wide phenomenon and they are just incredible athletes. I've been to all the performances and am really fascinated by all of their productions.
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.
