Performers Quotes - Page 27

• I'd like to think I could physically manage doing that, but I don't think it feels authentic to the kind of performer that I am. I think that, for me, being stationary and just sort of singing the songs seems to be the most connected and authentic expression for me on stage.

  Sara Bareilles

  Song, Thinking, Expression

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.

  Gordon Smith

  Radio, Advertising, Grammy

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• As an actor and as a performer, I'm very much aware of the fact that my job is to change both physically and emotionally and that was what hurt the most - the fact that people were judging me based on nothing.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Hurt, Jobs, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

  Michael Sheen

  Mother, Dad, Reading

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Pro wrestling was there, and I was good at it, thank God. I started getting a lot of offers, but unfortunately, at WWE I was under a tight leash. I think it had a lot to do with The Rock making the transition, and me possibly being the next guy - you know, the company didnt want to lose another top performer.

  Kurt Angle

  Wrestling, Thinking, Wwe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If youre not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, youre kind of stuck.

  Lyle Lovett

  Being Yourself, Important, Likes

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• I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

  Anneliese van der Pol

  Born, Hard

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• A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To me, a price drop is an opportunity to load up on bargains from among your worst performers and your laggards that show promise. If you can't convince yourself "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a buyer" and banish forever the fatal thought "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a seller," then you'll never make a decent profit in stocks.

  Peter Lynch

  Opportunity, Forever, Promise

  "One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market". Book by Peter Lynch and John Rothchild, 1989.

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• The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of the performer and reflects them back to the listener.

  David Lanz

  Player, Mirrors, Light

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• It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

  Tilda Swinton

  Trailers, Temperament, Walking

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• My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.

  Michael Ian Black

  Goal, Trying, Actors

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

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• I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

  Barry Manilow

  Goal, Musician, Wanted

  "Barry Manilow on Anthony Weiner and the Trappings of Fame: 'I Know That Feeling'". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 16, 2011.

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• But on balance, a performer wants to feel that there's something there which stands out because you put a lot of effort into it, a lot of energy and a lot of yourself into something. I feel pretty successful about some movies I've been in that have not been greeted with a lot of enthusiasm and I do trust my own criteria.

  Ben Affleck

  Successful, Effort, Balance

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Some people are good at performing in front of people like that, but I'm uncomfortable at it. I think maybe that's the difference between acting and being a performer. I don't think I'm a natural performer.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, Differences, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What you're hoping for about the concert is an overall collective experience that everyone has and that you share with them and when you hit the stage you have a "common" feeling. Even though you're the performer and they're the audience there's something uniting everybody in the room.

  Joel Plaskett

  Feelings, Uniting, Rooms

  Source: thewiremegazine.blogspot.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 and singing along, and that part's wonderful.

  Carrie Underwood

  People, Singing, Wonderful

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a performer. That's what I do. That and making money - it's the passion and the care factor for the people that support your passion, the people that support you, it's the kind of people that go crazy and love your stuff.

  Schoolboy Q

  Crazy, Love You, Passion

  Source: www.acclaimmag.com

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• He was always saying, 'I wonder what Paul is doing.' When John and I were together, and this is about a week or two before our relationship ended, I remember him saying, 'Do you think I should write with Paul again?' I said, 'Absolutely. You should because you want to. The two of you as solo performers are good, but together you can't be beaten.

  May Pang

  Writing, Thinking, Two

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• Comedy is a funny thing, and it's really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title. You would never go to a club just to see "Live music," you would go to a jazz club to see jazz, a blues club to see blues, etc. But when you go to see "standup comedy," if you don't know the performers material, you really don't have any idea what you're gonna get.

  Joe Rogan

  Art, Funny Things, Ideas

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• Another thing that I like and that's fun for me is to try and talk and play music at the same time, because I feel like I'm learning something. There are these little challenges built into it; it's a way to push myself a little bit more as a performer.

  Demetri Martin

  Fun, Play, Challenges

  Source: www.isthmus.com

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• I think as a performer, it can be really great to stand on stage, especially when you have more time, but I do think about the specific people in the audience, how it's hard for them to get up and go to the bathroom, how they chose not to do other things that night and have turned off their phones and everything. So for that reason, I think it's necessary to mix it up and talk to the audience.

  Demetri Martin

  Night, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.isthmus.com

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• I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."

  Laurie Anderson

  Dream, People, Want

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January 2012.

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• I learned how to let other performers have their moment. A lot of people can't do that. They just chew the scenery and steamroll over their scene partners. It doesn't make you look better in the long run to do that. You have to have balance in your scene. If it's somebody else's moment, let them have it. Learn how to be generous. Plus, it makes the audience hate you.

  Wendi McLendon-Covey

  Running, Hate, Long

  "Wendi McLendon-Covey on Her New Sitcom and Her Career in Comedy". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I always say that comedians and actors were all kind of shy when they were young. I was very, believe it or not, kind of embarrassed as a child. But my mother was a very strong lady and she was the one that kept it going when I thought it would be over for me as a performer. She was always my inspiration and she was a big influence on me.

  Don Rickles

  Mother, Strong, Children

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• I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire twenties with some success as a comedy writer but not much as a performer. And you have to be kind of informed and naive at the same time.

  Steve Martin

  Thinking, Challenges, Twenties

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