Performers Quotes - Page 15

• No matter what, I will always prefer a live performance. Whether it be a play or a musical, or playing music live. As long as it's live, it's the best because there's sort of an immediacy to connection between an audience and a performer, whereas where you do film or television, you're at the whim of so many different forces.

  Darren Criss

  Play, Long, Musical

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It was like Mama suddenly realized I was good, that she didn't have to apologize for me. It was the strangest feeling. One minute I was on stage with my mother, the next moment I was on stage with Judy Garland. One minute she smiled at me, and the next minute she was like the lioness that owned the stage and suddenly found somebody invading her territory. The killer instinct of a performer had come out in her.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mother, Feelings, Lioness

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• As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible.

  Marc Maron

  People, Support, Used

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• Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

  Anna Faris

  Males, Hollywood, Female

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• I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live theater. I'm a performer. That's what I do. That's what I want to do.

  Derek Hough

  Art, School, Different

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• I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Born, Feels

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• I don't know what the hell I'm doing up there half the time. These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what technique means. But I do know what experience is. I know in my gut when I've done a scene right.

  Elaine Stritch

  Mean, Technique, Done

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• Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

  Brian Setzer

  Dying, Veteran, Scene

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• When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.

  Mary Ruwart

  Children, Parent, Use

  "Short answers to the tough questions". Book by Mary Ruwart, content.time.com. 1998.

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• Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do it. They begin with the end in mind.

  Stephen Covey

  Athlete, Class, Mind

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• There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Audacity, Facts

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• Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as a component in an overall look as well as for its individual charms.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Garden, Keys, Looks

  Penelope Hobhouse (2001). “Flower garden designs”

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• A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

  Romola Garai

  Passion, Character, Ideas

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• The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

  Romola Garai

  Character, Judging, Way

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.

  Muhammad Yunus

  People, Despair, Wonder

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty”, p.171, PublicAffairs

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• The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Tired, Half, World

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.161, Macmillan

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• I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

  Nick Cave

  Artist, Thinking, Essentials

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• As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.

  Marilyn Manson

  Media, Alarms, Way

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• The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded passion for what they do, an unwavering desire for excellence in the way they think and the way they work. Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step.

  James C. Collins

  Morning, Spring, Work

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• One's concentration as a performer must remain centered on the action of which one is a part. For it is in truth only one's own concentration on the imagined reality of the role that can force the audience's attention to that same place.

  Rick Dees

  Dance, Reality, Roles

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• Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Dance, Determination, Artist

  Lincoln Kirstein (1970). “Four Centuries of Ballet: Fifty Masterworks”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• All dance has expression. If there is no expression, I prefer the circus. The performers do more dangerous, more difficult technical things than we do. But we are dancers. We have to express and we have to project.

  Luis de la Fuente

  Dance, Expression, Dancing

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• I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm, like, a natural performer, but I'm getting better.

  Dan Bejar

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

  Fred Astaire

  Inspiration, Men, Dancing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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