#performance

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#confidence #faithful #honesty #honor #live

I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#big screen #i #intimidated #keep #kind

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#composers #conceived #conductors #could #direct

Motion capture is exactly what it says: it's physical moves, whereas performance capture is the entire performance - including your facial performance. If you're doing, say, martial arts for a video game, that is motion capture. This is basically another way of recording an actor's performance: audio, facial and physical. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#another #another way #arts #audio #basically

There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#commanders #equally #excel #fit #free

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

— Maggie Smith

#better #head #much #performances #stage

And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance. ↗

— John W. Snow

#continuing #conversation #growth #improved #our

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

The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#before #between #day #hadn #happening

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