Performers Quotes - Page 18

• Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'

  Joan Jett

  Wise, Hard Work, Needs

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• I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.

  Penn Jillette

  People, Contact, Products

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

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• Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, Want, Entertainment

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage.

  Beth Ditto

  Character, Bags, Tools

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• I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

  Beth Ditto

  Gossip, Musician, Band

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• My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.

  Bobby Darin

  Goal, Remembered, Humans

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• My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.

  Paula Abdul

  Jobs, Thinking, Hardest Job

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• In every language you can imagine I've had people say 'Appetite For Destruction' is the soundtrack to their lives. I don't think you could say something nicer to an entertainer or performer - can't get more respectful.

  Steven Adler

  Thinking, People, Language

  "Steven Adler Talks Guns N' Roses Rock Hall Induction, New Project, Drug Use + More". Interview with Graham Hartmann, loudwire.com. April 5, 2012.

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• I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.

  Criss Angel

  Television, Stage, Tricks

  Criss Angel (2009). “Mindfreak: Secret Revelations”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.

  Criss Angel

  Television

  "Exclusive: Criss Angel's magic warehouse and all-new Believe". Interview with Robin Leach, lasvegassun.com. October 29, 2010.

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• You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.

  Victoria Beckham

  Important, Saving, Remember

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• As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

  Russell Brand

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• Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

  Jane Campion

  Home, Trying, Directors

  "Jane Campion: 'I make films so I can have fun with the characters'". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. October 117, 2009.

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• The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

  Johnny Cash

  Pride, Men, Giving

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• For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

  Joan Chen

  Girl, Past, Thinking

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

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• The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it's not easy for me.

  Margaret Cho

  Stuff, Easy, Social

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• I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Girl, Littles, Used

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• I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers.

  Tony Curtis

  Summer, Real, Moving

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• Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.

  Claire Danes

  Artist, My Favorite, All Time

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• As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it's not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it's done.

  Claire Danes

  Real, Let It Go, Playing Someone

  Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

  Elton John

  Thinking, Musician, Rock N Roll

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• For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

  Norah Jones

  Lines, Fine Lines, Fine

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• The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

  Quincy Jones

  People, Black, Climate

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• Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

  Camille Paglia

  Years, Doe, Needs

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• Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

  Camille Paglia

  Fashion, Art, Self

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