Performers Quotes - Page 14

• I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.

  Kari Matchett

  Art, Dancer, Singers

  Source: collider.com

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• Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.

  Vincent Canby

  Missing, Environment, One Woman

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• The jokes now, it's just more stories and personal experiences. And just talking about things that really happened. It's just becoming more comfortable as a performer, sharing my opinions on things, or things that've happened to me. That's where it's really going.

  Hannibal Buress

  Talking, Stories, Becoming

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• I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers].

  Lena Horne

  Brother, Water, Black

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• Christmas was really where I started coming into my own as a performer because I did all this stuff on my own, all this performing on my own. When other kids were outside playing, I was in my room conjuring characters and impressions and things like that.

  Jim Carrey

  Character, Kids, Stuff

  "Carrey: 'I Threw Myself Down the Stairs'". www.digitalspy.com. December 30, 2009.

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• I was a street performer for two years.

  Bernie Mac

  Years, Two, Streets

  "Actor, comedian and exasperated dad Mac dies at 50" by Frazier Moore, www.washingtonpost.com. August 9, 2008.

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• Because I'm the only performer who comes out and says I've had plastic surgery, I've become the plastic surgery poster girl, which is hilarious, because everybody has done it and they all deny it. They stand there, like the Bride of Frankenstein, they've all got stitches, and they all say, 'I've done nothing.' I talk about it.

  Joan Rivers

  Girl, Stitches, Done

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• When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

  Shirley Temple

  Please, Audience

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• Somehow, I landed The Walking Dead and it's great because it stretches and works different muscles for me, and it really lets me stretch myself as a performer. Now, I'm really excited to flex my comedy muscle. Hopefully, I'll get some opportunities to do that.

  Steven Yeun

  Opportunity, Walking Dead, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• (The) process of acting is no different to conventional screen acting, in that it's providing a perfect interface between the director and the performer. So there's no sort of long way around a viral committee of animators.

  Andy Serkis

  Long, Perfect, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little bit iffy because they were performing, a lot of times, for white audiences who found it hilarious.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Song, Thinking, White

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I've always loved the rock & roll element to live shows, because whatever else I do, I'm basically a rock/pop performer, and that's what I like.

  Marc Almond

  Rocks, Elements, Pops

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think most performers are just lazy.

  Aaron Watson

  Thinking, Lazy

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• I definitely wouldn't be the performer I am today if the gay audience had not been so supportive of me as a complete unknown.

  Kiesza

  Gay, Supportive, Today

  "Kiesza Makes a Sound of a Woman". Interview with Jerry Nunn, nexusradio.fm. October 9, 2015.

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• The visual side of being a performer or in a band is, to me, as important as the music. I know not everyone shares that same opinion, but when I'm writing songs or working on lyrics or coming up with an idea, I think about videos as I'm in the studio. If I had all the money in the world, I would have the most amazing videos ever, you know? You're saying grandiose, and big; if the song warrants it, I try to push the visuals as far as I can.

  Tamaryn

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I look at great singers like Sinatra, Bennett and (Tom) Jones, I see great performers that can really move an audience. I really consider myself a troubadour privately and a song-plugger publicly.

  Tiny Tim

  Song, Moving, Looks

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• I went to high school right outside Dallas, and (songwriter and performer) Michael Martin Murphey was a senior there when I was a sophomore or junior, really into folk and acoustic music. Larry Gross, who's the host of "Mountain Stage" on public radio, and B.W. Stevenson, also a musician, were there at the same time, too. Michael was a big inspiration -- through him I discovered Woody Guthrie, Dylan, Jimmy Rogers. Then I ran into Jerry Jeff Walker there in Dallas back when he was just a folk singer. Those are my earliest influences.

  Ray Wylie Hubbard

  Senior, Inspiration, School

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• Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries.

  Robin Sharma

  Library, Ordinary, Giants

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Oct 18, 2013

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• When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.

  Paul Lansky

  Concerts, Performances, Live Performance

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Orchestra, Roles, Century

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• I'm not a natural born performer.

  Amy Winehouse

  Natural, Born

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• Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike most people as irrationally confident, but that's how they got to the top.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, Running, Self Confidence

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• In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sports, Boxing, Connections

  Joyce Carol Oates (1987). “On boxing”, Dolphin Books

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• Playing music well is difficult, yet the world has an abundance of fine performers. Explaining a little about music is easier, yet few do it well. Those who can do both supremely form a tiny club, whose honorary chairman is the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.

  Justin Davidson

  Playing Music, World, Clubs

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• I'm honored to be in a position to have young girls or performers look up to me.

  Lea Michele

  Girl, Looks, Look Up

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