Performers Quotes - Page 26

• I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits.

  Kathleen Hanna

  People, Musician, Use

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area that I'd have loved - to teach it, probably, Language has always fascinated me. There's a genetic inheritance there a good language gene, which I inherited [from my mother and grandfather] and she fostered that in me as he fostered that in her.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Thinking, Careers

  "George Carlin confronts reality" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. October 29, 2004.

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• The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

  Van Cliburn

  Art, Drama, Piano

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• Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Dancer, Competition

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• Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up. Just the concept of "I had this idea" and within a week it was in the world, that was a part of why it felt weirdly empowering as a performer.

  Chris Hardwick

  Air, Years, Ideas

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, tv.avclub.com. December 29, 2010.

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• I don't know why people don't want to talk about their numbers. I guess in a sense, there's a bit of performer nudity, a bit of ego nudity when you expose your numbers, I guess because someone's are higher or someone's are lower. I've never really talked about the numbers with anyone, so maybe I'm not supposed to.

  Chris Hardwick

  Numbers, People, Ego

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think the most important thing is to establish myself as an actor. As much as it's a performing art, I'm not really a performer.

  Zac Efron

  Art, Thinking, Important

  "EXCLUSIVE: Zac Efron and Vanessa Anne Hudgens Sing Their Praises for High School Musical". Movieweb Interview, movieweb.com. May 22, 2006.

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• It's a very hard line to walk, and I certainly am nowhere near having cracked how to do that, but I try to focus on being a brave performer and not worrying about my lighting or whatever, even though, then, sometimes I see myself on screen, and I'm like, "Why did you wear that, look like that, whatever," but I'm also more accepting that is what it is. There's this battle always.

  June Diane Raphael

  Worry, Brave, Focus

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding. The most important thing for the performer is, after all, to create a special atmosphere - we enter the composer's feelings and emotions and recreate them freshly for a given audience.

  Rafal Blechacz

  Understanding, Feelings, Atmosphere

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• Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.

  Tom Hardy

  Vanity, People, Doe

  "Tom Hardy Talks Grown-Up Love". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. July 19, 2012.

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• If you stay half-alert, you can pick the spectacular performers right from your place of business or out of the neighborhood shopping mall, and long before Wall Street discovers them.

  Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.

  Wall, Shopping, Long

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• Eric's performance is an awesome and entirely honest expression of the pain and beauty of his music. To watch him play is like riding on the tail of a dragon, but he is so gentle with his rider, you forget how high up you are or how intense the ride is.   He is perhaps the most generous performer I have ever watched, every bit of himself is given to the audience.   He's like a Marina Abramovic with a piano, completely and deeply committed, regardless of that pain.

  Tea Leoni

  Pain, Dragons, Expression

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• CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and the performers.

  Chris Stein

  Real, Rocks, Elements

  Source: time.com

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• Prince is the ultimate performer. Prince is that dude that's going to get on stage by himself, if he need to, but hold you in the palm of his hand. Like, you can't take your eyes off the man when he's on stage, and he could just be sitting there playing his guitar.

  Ne-Yo

  Eye, Men, Guitar

  "Singer-songwriter Ne-Yo". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. February 16, 2011.

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• The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

  Nat King Cole

  White, Ease

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• By the 1970s, pornography had caught up with The Block, where performers were totally in the nude. I wasn't going to do that, and I certainly wasn't about to let my girls do it. After all, I'm religious, and if my mother knew I was performing in the nude, she would have had a heart attack.

  Blaze Starr

  Girl, Mother, Religious

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• I think a lot of longevity, especially as a performer, depends on kind of what your commodity is. If your commodity is your cuteness and your chubby cheeks and your big gap between your teeth, if that's what your greatest asset is, of course that fails or that changes, you know, that goes away. Of course that fades.

  Fred Savage

  Thinking, Gaps, Teeth

  "Why Fred Savage put directing on hold to star in ‘The Grinder’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 28, 2015.

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• Broadway is not just the song and the shows; it's the individual performers and the community.

  Darren Criss

  Song, Community, Broadway

  "Inside Darren Criss' Plan to Create an Annual Music Festival With Broadway Performers". Interview with Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 26, 2015.

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• It's always been impressive to me when someone can really do what they want onstage. The audience has confidence in the performer and the performer has confidence in the crowd.

  Henry Rollins

  Crowds, Want, Impressive

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined and not wasting time. It's wild. And it's a great thing when you see a performer really able to.

  Henry Rollins

  Blow, Talking, Ideas

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• When I was a child, I dreamt of being a big star. I truly believed that I would be world famous someday, but that doesn't seem so important. What's important to me is getting to live my life as an artist, and making my passion my work. I have never wanted to be anything other than an actor and performer, and each day that I get to do that is a day well spent.

  Jinkx Monsoon

  Stars, Children, Passion

  Source: seattlegayscene.com

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• If you are truly fearless as a performer, than you don't fear kids or dogs.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Dog, Kids, Fearless

  "Interview: Actor Thomas Haden Church is Character Driven in 'Max'". Interview with Patrick McDonald, www.hollywoodchicago.com. June 25, 2015.

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• Serving and helping are great things, but we can go too far. Managers should not adopt poor performers. Colleagues should not cover for each other's mistakes. Parents should not enable their children.

  John G. Miller

  Children, Mistake, Parent

  Source: www.jmlalonde.com

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• For me I always need to have two sides to me when I play! I need to be a performer and at the same time the producer. So I need to be somewhere up in the air and producing my music. I can't just be the performer; otherwise I can't see the whole view. I need the big view!

  Hiromi

  Up In The Air, Play, Two Sides

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• In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.

  Mario Bunge

  Teacher, Community, Musical

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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