Performers Quotes - Page 25

• As a director, you have a thousand things going on in your head, and of course, that's going to be difficult. That's going to mean that some things get overlooked. And so, for us as performers, being the selfish pricks that we are, we're sitting there being concerned about ourselves all the time and our character's through-line.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Selfish, Character, Mean

  Source: collider.com

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• When I'm on stage, I feel like a performer for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures. That part's wonderful. But, I live the most boring life away from what you see me on camera doing. The other 300 days out of the year I'm just the most normal person in the universe. I'm a wife. I'm a mother to my doggies. I'm a maid - I clean the house.

  Carrie Underwood

  Mother, Years, People

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days when I came along.

  Lena Horne

  Heard

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.

  Suzanne Falter-Barns

  Judging, Waiting, Facts

  Suzanne Falter-Barns (1999). “How Much Joy Can You Stand?: How to Push Past Your Fears and Create Your Dreams”, Beyond Words Publishing Company

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• A road-wise folkie with a bluesy soul reminiscent of early Michelle Shocked, Melissa Crabtree is an original storyteller and performer not to be missed.

  Catie Curtis

  Wise, Soul, Melissa

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• If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had.

  Will Sheff

  Song, Guitar, Acoustics

  Source: www.spin.com

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• Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer.

  George Carlin

  Hurt, Grass, It Hurts

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• You don't know being a performer what kind of performance you're going to give. You know you can give a certain quality of performance, but as I grow older I'm much more content in my own skin because when I come offstage, I have a balance in my life.

  Elton John

  Giving, Balance, Skins

  "Elton John, James McAvoy, Emily Blunt Interview, Gnomeo & Juliet". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. January 2011.

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• I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. [And] I want to be known for what I do best.

  George Carlin

  Believe, Want, Worthwhile

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• Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.

  Bette Midler

  Energy, Music Is, Terrific

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.

  Carrie Preston

  Persons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently; and, oddly, I found a lot in common between Jobs and Brown. Jobs was also a fantastic performer, put on an extraordinary live show at his product launches, but he could also be ruthless, cruel and totally self-aggrandizing. And just as Brown surrounded himself with the very best musicians, Jobs understood the importance of hiring the absolutely most talented people and knew how crucial they were to the success of what he was trying to do.

  Alex Gibney

  Jobs, Self, People

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• There are two kinds of comments that I get. One is, oh, you're such a natural up there, and the other one is, you're working hard up there. And the ones who say I'm working hard are teachers, they're the educators; they're the people who are the performers. It's a huge investment of my psycho-emotional energy to pull that off and to make it look smooth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Emotional, Two

  "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Writing, Mars, Curiosity, and the Higgs Boson". Interview With Sandra Kitt, aalbc.com. January 1, 2013.

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• I think the idea now of being a performer in this era of social media saturation means that you have to be an actor, a musician, a stand-up comic, writer, or a director. Focusing in on one thing doesn't take up all of your time.

  Robbie Rist

  Mean, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.teenagemutantninjaturtles.com

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• I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.

  Lauren London

  Knows

  "Next Factor: 'Big Happy Family' Star Lauren London". Interview with Elizabeth Durand, www.mtv.com. April 21, 2011.

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• When managers overdo micromanaging of others, they probably hired the wrong people or failed to give them a clear idea of what each one is to accomplish. I prefer to train employees to be self-managers, just as in an orchestra each performer knows his or her role without being micromanaged.

  Philip Kotler

  Self, Ideas, Giving

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. May 10, 2015.

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• Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for note (if not expression for expression) by others, jazz was a performer's not a composer's art.

  Russell Lynes

  Art, New Orleans, Expression

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• Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Long, Would Be, Singers

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• At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

  Elena Roger

  Singing, Age, Acting

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting With West End Evita Elena Roger Plus News of Buckley and LuPone". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. July 28, 2006.

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• There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

  Amanda Marshall

  Careers, Band, Management

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• I have never met a grateful performer in the movies.

  Harry Cohn

  Grateful, Mets

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

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• Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.

  Daniel Breaker

  Midwest, Haunting, Eccentric

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• I think Phil Collins is one of the most underrated musicians, singers, performers - he is absolutely amazing, I think, and I think he's probably got a bit of a rough ride occasionally because he became so mainstream and so popular.

  Rick Astley

  Thinking, Musician, Singers

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

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• Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.

  Scott Weiland

  Pride, Goal, Musician

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• Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you defer to that. It's just kind of how it's constructed. Is there some leeway? Yeah. But I also don't want to come across as a jerk.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Television, Want, Kind

  "A chat with Jim Gaffigan". Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. March 20, 2009.

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