Performers Quotes - Page 19

• I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off.

  Paula Poundstone

  Talking, Land, World

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• The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That I don't have a lot of respect for.

  Robert Redford

  Animal, Rights, Long

  “Robert Redford: What I've Learned” by Matthew Belloni, www.esquire.com. August 18, 2014.

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• Like most actors, I've always been grateful for Chinese restaurants; they were often the only places that stayed open late enough for performers to get hot food after the show.

  Ginger Rogers

  Grateful, Chinese, Hot

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

  William Shatner

  Comedian, Directors, Entertainers

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• By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

  Sarah Silverman

  Night, Comedy, Saturday

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• It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.

  Nikki Sixx

  Athlete, Years, Trying

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• I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

  Patti Smith

  Strong, Musician, Knows

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• It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.

  Kevin Spacey

  Athlete, Character, Night

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• I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.

  Sting

  Helping, Fit, Help Me

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• It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

  Barbra Streisand

  Saws, Creeps, Wanted

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• I made the decision to take on board the critical feedback. Reviews are something you can easily ignore as a performer or writer but I chose to not ignore them here and I think that I benefited. I think I'm stronger for it - and I have a tougher skin as a result.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Thinking, Decision, Skins

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• George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

  Tom Waits

  Vaudeville

  "Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits". www.npr.org. May 20, 2008.

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• I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.

  Yoko Ono

  Spiritual, Thinking, Giving

  "Yoko Ono at 80: 'I feel that I am starting a new life, a second life'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "Yoko Ono at 80: 'I feel that I am starting a new life, a second life'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  School, Medicine, Choices

  "Every Week There is More Reason to Feel Empathy for Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2009.

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• There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Sexy, Fun, Sides

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• The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Pay, Affair, Feels

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

  Adam Lambert

  Men, Years, Female

  "Adam Lambert Says Censorship of American Music Awards Song Would Be 'Discrimination'" by Daniel Kreps, www.rollingstone.com. November 23, 2009.

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• I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Denial, Deny, Form

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• As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Eye, Faces, Subtle

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• Every performer wants to sing live. That's what I live for.

  Leona Lewis

  Want

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

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• Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.

  Eric Liu

  Jobs, Couple, Men

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• I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. Were loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Thinking, People, Dying

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

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• I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Thinking, Purpose, Pieces

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 7, 2013.

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• The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'

  John Malkovich

  Simple, Together, Groups

  "Malkovich: I don't always play the bad guy". Interview with Rosie Tomkins, www.cnn.com. January 20, 2010.

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