Performers Quotes - Page 22

• Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one of the greatest advertising faults. Ad writers abandon their part. They forgot they are salesmen and try to be performers. Instead of sales, they seek applause

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, People, Trying

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• Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

  Jo Stafford

  Song, Suffering, Mercy

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• I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, Hate, Long

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• What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

  Earle Brown

  Lying, Hands, Two

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• I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

  John Lone

  Queens, Drag, Extraordinary

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• I'm so thankful for the Internet because actors and singers and performers now have a way to connect with their fans on a very personal level which I think is quite special.

  Ariana Grande

  Thinking, Special, Fans

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• I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

  Jason Patric

  People, Directors, Use

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• The best shows have a clear idea of what they want to achieve, where the performers have the ability to disrupt normality and engage directly with audiences of all ages. A company who can do just that (apparently effortlessly) is dotComedy.

  Lyn Gardner

  Ideas, Age, Want

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• As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for yourself, because casting people aren't always going to see you the way you want to be seen. Write a one-person show, shoot a short film, do plays, whatever - activity breeds activity. No one's interested in a stay-at-home actress.

  Wendi McLendon-Covey

  Home, Writing, Phones

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

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• I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

  Helen Reddy

  Numbers, Parent, Stage

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• Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if
  you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience.

  Lucille Ball

  Struggle, Mind, Important

  Lucille Ball (1997). “Love, Lucy”, p.46, Penguin

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• I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

  Jamie Farr

  Hollywood, Doe, Broadway

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• Frankie Randall is a consummate performer. He is an exquisite jazz pianist and wonderful singer. I had the great pleasure to work with him on the Dean Martin Show and I'm very proud to call him a friend!

  Lainie Kazan

  Proud, Singers, Jazz

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• It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility.

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Errors, Wizardry

  Dean Koontz (2014). “Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (Short Story)”, p.154, Bantam

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• I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

  Jenny Slate

  People, Want

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

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• Comedy clubs have brick walls behind the performer. Bricks make you funny. When I'm in front of a fireplace, I'm hilarious.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Wall, Humor

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• I was 17 when I auditioned for 'Miss Saigon.' I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a year into 'Miss Saigon,' that I was going to be a performer, that I was going to be singing and acting.

  Lea Salonga

  Years, Missing, Singing

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• It's great to watch someone get the most out of what they can do, whether they're a beautiful performer or just a really gritty performer. It's something to behold.

  John Turturro

  Beautiful, Watches, Can Do

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• Zimbabwe's stock market was the best performer this decade - but your entire portfolio now buys you 3 eggs

  Kyle Bass

  Eggs, Zimbabwe, Portfolios

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• What Mr. Kaufman and his team are after is less a portrait of any one person than one of the ethos of a place. In the deliberate, simple staging ... in which eight radiantly clean-scrubbed performers embody 60 different people against a bare-bones set, 'Laramie' often brings to mind 'Our Town,' the beloved Thornton Wilder study of life, love and death in parochial New Hampshire.

  Ben Brantley

  Team, Love Life, Simple

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• The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.

  E. B. White

  Media, Roles, News

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• I'm a performer. I've tried everything there is.

  Gene Pitney

  Hypnosis

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• Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.

  Ben Bagdikian

  Passion, Average, Ukulele

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• Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!

  Camryn Manheim

  Venice, Pockets, Crafts

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• Go with your gut every single time. It’s never, ever wrong. Even if feels like everybody else is telling you that you need to do this or do that. Your gut is your artist and who you are as a person and what makes you special, and what makes you an interesting performer. Never try to be something you’re not.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Artist, Interesting, Special

  "Tatiana Maslany, Beside Herself". Interview with James Ostime, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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