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• Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

  Judy Holliday

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• Performance art is about joy, about making something that’s so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can’t put into words.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

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• I think the way I eat is the foundation of my performance.

  Kris Humphries

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• ‘Funny People’ is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it’s a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn’t feel like I was playing myself. Whether it’s a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.

  Jonah Hill

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• When you’re acting and directing, you’re standing there acting with another actor, and you’re trying to do your performance, and at the same time you’re watching their performance, and making sure the lights are in the right place, and if the person is wearing the right wardrobe. All these things are going on in your head.

  Kevin Heffernan

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• It’s funny when you know you’re playing two characters and you’re aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You’re constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.

  Jamie Dornan

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• I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

  Taylor Hackford

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• In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.

  James Surowiecki

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• We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

  Leonard Slatkin

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• Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they’re treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.

  Wallace Shawn

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• I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that’s not to coddle them or to baby them. It’s to help them; it’s to push them.

  Richard Bartlett Schroder Jr.

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• In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

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• The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it’s so addictive.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

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• I’ve done my coaching badges, I’ve got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I’m doing now. I’m also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales – and I’m lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.

  Ian Rush

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• Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.

  Donald Rumsfeld

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• I think these awards are always nice for a player but they also reflect well on the club. It shows that Arsenal’s performance have been noted all around the world and it helps by having so many good players around me.

  Dennis Bergkamp

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• When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

  Charles Rosen

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• Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.

  Phil Donahue

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• Nobody has milked one performance better than me – and I’m damned proud of it.

  Bruce Jenner

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• I don’t see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it’s unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

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