Performers Quotes - Page 20

• When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

  John Malkovich

  Play, Glasses, Human Life

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

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• Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.

  Steve Martin

  Real, Different Experiences, Band

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• To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mean, Reality, Dollars

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• You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Hands, People

  "Talk Asia". www.cnn.com. November 16, 2012.

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• I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

  Christopher Walken

  Children, Actors, Child Actors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2004.

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• As an actress, I think it’s important to look back and realize that we aren’t always quite as original as we think we are. There’s this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

  Natalie Dormer

  Thinking, Years, Important

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• I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

  Cate Blanchett

  Order

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• I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.

  Samantha Bee

  Thinking, People, Shy

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• As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.

  Simon Baker

  Kids, Clown, Bits

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

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• I'm not like a performer type.

  Dave Attell

  Type

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. February 19, 2003.

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• There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

  Tom Conti

  People, Film And Television, Frustrating

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

  Fefe Dobson

  Pain, Real, Being Alone

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.

  Dagmara Dominczyk

  Love Is, Holes, Dies

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• I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Kings, Thinking, Rocks

  Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. August 2, 2015.

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• I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall.

  Warwick Davis

  Running, Agency, Feet

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• Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write... Writing, for me, is still it. It has always been the basis of everything I do. I'm a writer who performs, not a performer who writes. I love the act of writing. It's still a thrill for me.

  Clive James

  Art, Writing, Years

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• One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

  Carla Bley

  Art, Band, Music Is

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• My entire life, I've always known that I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know exactly how, where or when. I never learned or studied the craft, formally. I grew up doing martial arts and playing piano. But, something inside of me always said that I was going to do this, as far back as I can remember.

  Laz Alonso

  Art, Piano, Crafts

  "Laz Alonso talks James Cameron's AVATAR - Could it be the first of a Trilogy?". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 5, 2009.

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• If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!

  Evander Holyfield

  Wish, Singers, Wow

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• If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist-then you may please even God.

  Ali Akbar Khan

  Artist, Years, Practice

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• You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

  Terry Eagleton

  Long, Different, Actors

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• I'm the audience first, and if you're gonna be a great performer, you need to be a great audience. So, I do music for me first, and whoever likes it likes it, and whoever doesn't -- well, it's just not for them.

  Shelby Lynne

  Needs, Likes, Firsts

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• The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Constant

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• What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Doe, Particular, Translators

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• Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Dancer, Actors, World

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