Performers Quotes - Page 24

• As a performer, I don't like to play the same thing over and over. I like to play it and let it go and move on. That's also why television hasn't really been something that I've done.

  Hilary Swank

  Moving, Play, Let It Go

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers.

  Jack Welch

  Average, Phenomenon

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• I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with, but then you need people to bring them to life. So you have to be comfortable with solitude and also with being very social.

  Alan Licht

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. September 21, 2012.

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• The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

  James Agate

  Failure, Kind, Worst

  James Agate (1949). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 7, Ego 8, Ego 9”

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• When you're casting a movie and when you're shooting a film, the eyes are the most important feature of any performer, really. Any great actor literally knows exactly how to use their eyes, and even as a filmmaker I love shooting huge close-ups because it's those eyes that mean so much to me.

  Peter Jackson

  Mean, Eye, Important

  "Comic-Con 2011: Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson Interview ADVENTURES OF TINTIN; Spielberg Says Jackson Is Scheduled to Shoot the Sequel". Press conference, collider.com. July 22, 2011.

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• I love music that has good catchy choruses and fits into many different genres. ... I like real artists, that write their own material and are great performers.

  Perez Hilton

  Real, Writing, Artist

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• More than an actor, I am a performer. I'm a great believer

  Shahrukh Khan

  Actors, Believer

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• My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.

  Nick Offerman

  School, Theater, This Day

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• Only a fool takes offense at the truth, Jessamine. They are awful, of that there is no question. But they are also very charming. Purveyors of unspeakable suffering and indescribable delights. Performers of murders and miracles! You might grow to like them, if you got to know them as I do. But why has your beloved Crabgrass ventured into this garden of horrors, I wonder?

  Maryrose Wood

  Garden, Miracle, Suffering

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• My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obviously busy in the box. But I'm told that children of television performers grow up thinking that all mommies or daddies work on TV and that it's no big deal.

  Jane Pauley

  Children, Growing Up, Book

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• Exceptional performers are masterful opportunists, keenly alert to opportunity!

  Brian Tracy

  Opportunity, Opportunist, Exceptional

  Twitter post from Dec 13, 2016

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• Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.

  Dana Plato

  Growing Up, Vacation, Skills

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

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• When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Years, Facts, Crops

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

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• Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it.

  Judd Apatow

  People, Obsessive

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much more of a musical approach: You learn a melody, and then you sing it, I suppose, or you find a rhythm or a cadence that works for the material. And then it's sort of about hitting that note correctly and finding those beats.

  Brady Corbet

  Character, Musical, Cadence

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it across. It would be hard to imagine an ensemble playing it with greater virtuosity than the JACK Quartet, which seemed not merely earnest but also completely comfortable with, and passionate about, the strange sound worlds at hand.

  Allan Kozinn

  Hands, Sound, Rebel

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• Peak performers replace depletion with inspiration on a daily basis.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Inspiration, Buisness

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• I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

  Brendan Coyle

  Drama, Lying, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been a performer for a long time and I know when people are laughing from their guts, from the inside, and when their tuxedos are laughing.

  George Carlin

  Long, People, Laughing

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

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• Second, they [those who disagree with market efficiency] always claim they know a man, a bank, or a fund that does do better. Alas, anecdotes are not science. And once Wharton School dissertations seek to quantify the performers, these have a tendency to evaporate into the air - or, at least, into statistically insignificant t-statistics.

  Paul Samuelson

  School, Men, Air

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• If you want to be a singer or a performer or absolutely anything in the world that you want to do, I think you should never give up, you should never let anyone put you down and tell you you can't do it, because if you believe in yourself you will go far

  Perrie Edwards

  Giving Up, Believe, Thinking

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• I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with having theater and other non-club venues, as well as the audience being filled with other artists. It's nice to be with other comics, as usually at other road gigs, I'm solo for the most part.

  Maria Bamford

  Attitude, Nice, Artist

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• Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Skating, Kind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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• Even world class performers can benefit from walk breaks.

  Jeff Galloway

  Class, Benefits, World

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• The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

  Arabella Weir

  Crush, Actors, Life Is

  "Auditions are hell, but I never thought that I would have to go through 'casting' to get on Newsnight - and fail" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2006.

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