Performers Quotes - Page 7

• I've never seen a performer create electricity with an audience like James Brown. He's got everybody in his hands and whatever he wants to do with them, he does it. It's amazing. I've always thought he was underrated.

  Michael Jackson

  Hands, Doe, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when they know nothing about history.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Ignorance, Arrogance, Combination

  "'Little Eichmanns' and 'Digital Brownshirts'" by Victor Davis Hanson, www.nationalreview.com. March 18, 2005.

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• It was also great to have the Backstreet Boys appear on stage with me because I have gotten to know them all a little bit just recently, and not only are they great performers, but they also very hard working professionals and really nice guys.

  Elton John

  Nice, Hard Work, Boys

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• Sarah [Silverman] writes her own jokes. She doesn't just go through her life and talk about everything. She sits down and crafts jokes. Sometimes her inspiration comes from areas of her life that are risqué. But she is an A-plus professional joke-writer in addition to being very attractive and a great performer.

  Mindy Kaling

  Inspiration, Writing, Crafts

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A writer is a performer as well. A writer isn't the literary department. That gets tried on but nothing's a script unless a good writer goes away and does his thing alone.

  William Monahan

  Scripts, Doe, Wells

  "Exclusive: William Monahan Candidly Discusses THE GAMBLER, His Severe Bike Accident Earlier This Year, His Approach to Writing, MOJAVE, VENGEANCE, John Le Carre’s A DELICATE TRUTH, Television, and More". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 12, 2014.

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• It's one thing to be sitting at a drawing board, alone in your home and coming up with a fantasy character, and drawing her whichever way you feel like drawing, then dealing with a real performer. All of a sudden, things change. It's amazing, in working with actors, how much I learn from them and how many new lines will come to mind because of their personality or their strengths.

  Frank Miller

  Real, Character, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• I grew up in the spoken-word community. Before everybody had a home studio, or before we could get booked for shows, open mics were the only way to be heard by other people. It really gave me a chance to develop as a performer. Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

  Macklemore

  Reading, Home, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.

  Bob Dylan

  Emotional, Media, People

  "Bob Dylan Exclusive Interview: Reveals His Favorite Songwriters, Thoughts On His Own Cult Figure Status". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2009.

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• I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I'd like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I'm not Mother Teresa. I can't do that.

  Bea Arthur

  Mother, Empty Rooms, Wish

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• First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.

  Vinny Testaverde

  Sports, Add, Looks

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• The average performer stops when they face fear. Iconic producer accelerates once they get frightened.

  Robin Sharma

  Fear, Average, Faces

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• Interpreting gives me a chance to do what I do well and have done since I was a kid. At one time, I might have wanted to be an actor or performer, and it somehow fulfills that in a non-threatening way.

  Jack Jason

  Kids, Giving, Might

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I moved on to the University of California, Berkley, coordinating interpreters for Deaf students at the university. The first year I was at Berkley, we brought in artists, performers, actors, and poets to create a Deaf arts festival. I did a lot of the interpreting for the stage performers. By the second year, I realized that I really liked producing arts festivals that had to do something with signing.

  Jack Jason

  Art, Years, California

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm not a director that's about precision and control and perfection, I'm about creating an atmosphere that's organic and interesting and then letting people loose, and for that there's no greater actor or performer than children. Animals are maybe a close runner-up.

  David Gordon Green

  Children, Animal, Creating

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

  Pete Wentz

  Giving, Social, Stage

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• What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?

  Lewis Mumford

  Buttons, Waking Life, Tasks

  Lewis Mumford (1970). “The myth of the machine”

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• Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough to think that they always observe with rigorous and objective scrutiny, and therefore could never be so fooled while ordinary mortals know perfectly well that good performers can always find a way to trick people.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Thinking, Psychics, People

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm incredibly grateful for the time I spent with STOMP and even more so for the skills and awareness I developed as a performer during that time.

  Nicholas Young

  Grateful, Skills, Awareness

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• It's never like we're up there being miserable at work, that's not something that happens for us. We love our work. So, when the performer loves what they're doing, it's easy for us to love what we're doing.

  Jennifer Abbott

  Miserable, Easy, Happens

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I'm an actor. I'm not a performer. I'm not like a song and dance guy who can take a cane and a hat and do it. I would just you know. That's why I never did commercials.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Song, Guy, Hats

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.

  Tom Lehrer

  Night, Temperament, Every Night

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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• Most performers reinvent themselves. Madonna, Michael Jackson, P. Diddy. They reinvent themselves into different kinds of images. Elvis Presley was always himself, an original, and he never tried to be anything but that.

  Pat Boone

  Different, Kind, Originals

  "The Enduring Legacy of Elvis Presley". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. May 6, 2005.

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• It's weird, I love acting and stand-up is a very unique, solitary thing where you are the writer, performer and director. But acting is incredibly rewarding, working and interacting with people to create funny moments. I can't imagine not doing acting or stand-up, I really enjoy both of them that much.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Unique, People, Acting

  "Ask Jim Gaffigan". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 28, 2007.

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• When I got into comedy, which was really for acting, I would see the guys who would be considered great today. They were great, but after a few minutes I could get kind of bored because they wouldn't move around. The dress code was boring to me. I didn't want to see the guy next door when I'm watching a performer. I wanted to see someone I would pay a ticket for.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Moving, Doors, Bored

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There's something mystical and wonderful about being in the room with the actual live performer s on stage that works. In film, it doesn't work so you're dependent on a great director to keep the thing moving along.

  Marshall Brickman

  Moving, Directors, Rooms

  Source: collider.com

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