Performers Quotes - Page 5

• Just concentrate on the performers. Make sure you get the performers, and that's it. That's all we need to do." And I was thinking, "Well what if you do both? Of course the performance is important, the writing is really important. But what if you could have the perfect marriage of making it look really slick as well?" I think that's kind of what I tried to develop as a style, and Spaced was the first TV show I did where all the elements came together.

  Edgar Wright

  Writing, Thinking, Tv Shows

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• It's a great time to be a comedian because you've got so much more control. You can say what you want to. I think in the old days with the studio system the performer was a bit of an afterthought. You can be a wildcard on the internet. But if you put something on the internet once it's out there it's out there for life.

  Bill Burr

  Thinking, Comedian, Want

  Interview with Bruce Dessau, www.beyondthejoke.co.uk. November 15, 2013.

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• I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.

  Roselyn Sanchez

  New York, Piano, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers

  John Travolta

  Mother, Children, Memories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Views, Over You

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.

  Charles Garfield

  Running, Skills, Important Events

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• Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.

  Dan John

  Senior, Workout, Distance

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• I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone.

  Amy Seimetz

  Drama, Reading, Reality

  "Amy Seimetz Discusses Her Busy Year and Why She Hates Being Labeled a ‘Breakout’". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. April 26, 2013.

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• Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.

  Damian McGinty

  Get Better, Doing Nothing, Rest Of Your Life

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.

  Sondre Lerche

  Play, Arena, Intimate

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• Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

  Denis Lavant

  Expression, Dancer, Firsts

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• You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.

  Elvis Costello

  Summer, New York, Opportunity

  "Interview about The Delivery Man". Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.

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• The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally rewards virtuoso performers more highly than it rewards original creators.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Creative, Rewards, Our Society

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.120, Penguin

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• It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

  Dan Deacon

  Goal, Made, Solo

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• I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

  Donald Fagen

  Singers, Wanted, Comfortable

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• The objective.. is to achieve a comfort level between the cook/artist/performer and the customer/viewer/diner. And if we can achieve that, and the customers are happy and the cooks are happy, then we have a great experience.

  Mario Batali

  Artist, Cooking, Comfort

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• There are two types of people, two types of performers: Performers who know how to keep a show going literally when the power is gone and performers who haven't had that much experience and will panic and freak out and don't know what to do.

  El-P

  Two, People, Gone

  Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. May 8, 2007.

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• The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.

  David Brooks

  Practice, Keys, Crafts

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• Performers always come back from the Edinburgh festival with adventure stories. Watts told a few: meeting a young kilt maker who spent a year in a madhouse after eating too much LSD, and accompanying Seattle actor and musician Michael McQuilken (of Collaborator Productions) to the hospital after a Frisbee accident. He reached up to catch it and cut his hand on a sign, .. He had to get a few stitches, but I think he can still play.

  Reggie Watts

  Adventure, Cutting, Thinking

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• It's personalities, it's conflict, it's all of these things that actually make performers interesting.

  Simon Cowell

  Interesting, Personality, Conflict

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• The younger generation of performers really enjoy their success. Its like they know their moment is here right now and probably won't be here in a few years.

  Sheryl Crow

  Years, Generations, Moments

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• Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.

  Ciara

  Perfection

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• There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.

  Janet Jackson

  Inspiration, Artist, Bigs

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• I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.

  Patti LuPone

  Thinking, Wonderful

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• Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

  Charles Garfield

  Powerful, Eye, Thinking

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