Performers Quotes

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

I sometimes play different kinds of music to see where the performers end up. I play one genre. Then something else when I do it again. It really helps.

I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.

When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.

Some performers are brilliant comedians, some are genius musicians, and some just make you happy to be alive. THE BOBS are all of that - and then some.

There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.

I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.

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.

I am used to being on tours with people who are fantastic performers and I respect them and I love their music. But the bottom line is they got the vision for what we are trying to do.

I was so fortunate to sing and work with so many amazing performers and artists.

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

Bill Cosby is one of America's most successful black performers.

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.

Great performers are preparing and practicing for a winning day while everyone else is still asleep.

Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.

I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.

The younger generation of performers really enjoy their success. Its like they know their moment is here right now and probably won't be here in a few years.

As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.

It's personalities, it's conflict, it's all of these things that actually make performers interesting.

Meryl Streep is so brilliant is because she is so human, and aware as a performer.

I tell a lot of young performers, 'Go get in trouble. Go commit yourself to something you're not sure you can do.' And I followed my own advice.

I feel like with our shows it always feels weird to be performers on stage and not engaging in audience interaction in some way - that exchange of energy is very much a part of the sound.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something secret, something withheld, and some level of restraint.

I wasn't really a performer by temperament.

I will say, the performers in the musical are some of the most super-talented people I've ever seen.

I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was more second nature than making an actual decision.

Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.

I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall.

I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

I had a blind date with a dentist — and he told me to come back in six months.

People say it is not the key to happiness, but I have always figured if you have enough money you can have a key made.

I said, "Is there!" I told him there is a Mafia school where they teach them math — if Johnny has ten fingers and they cut off two, how many does he have left?

Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe.

Laughing made me feel safe. I was not going to be enveloped by the seediness that coated this world like dust.

I am driven. Being driven is my energy source. It is my fun.…I believe that where there is action, there is movement, and those ripples will eventually produce something positive.

The revelation that personal truth can be the foundation of comedy, that outrageousness can be cleansing and healthy…

The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it.

Everything comes out of smoke and mist and nothingness, a mystical happening…

Liked" was the kiss of death. "Loved" or "hated" interested him. At least the performer had aroused emotion.

Maybe that is why in my comedy I try and puncture the hypocrisy all around us, why it is almost a crusade with me to strip life down to what really is true.

…but I think comedy is more aggressive than that. It is a medium for revenge. We can deflate and punish the pomposity and the rejection which hurt us. Comedy is power.

…you either do or do not have a comedy mind, whatever that is, maybe a heightened sense of the ridiculous and the absurdity of life…We are all crazy and crazed.