Performer Quotes

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed. (Alfred Brendel)
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over animation. One can either see or be seen. View quote
John Updike
But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath. View quote
Harry Houdini
If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play. View quote
Alice Cooper
You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville. View quote
Frank Sinatra
I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform. View quote
Sting (musician)
Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own. View quote
Studs Terkel
Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer. View quote
Betty Buckley
To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer. View quote
Rod Taylor
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. View quote
Vinny Testaverde
Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience. (Lucille Ball)
I think an artist can fit under a few different categories depending on how much you explore your creativity. It can vary from artist to artist from musician to performer to vocalist. I thrive on creativity. So in the long run I want to be an all around entertainer. View quote
Christina Aguilera
Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down. View quote
Ciara
You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body. View quote
Philip Seymour Hoffman
What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person. View quote
Edith Head
I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer. View quote
Patti LaBelle
The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show youre a great performer. View quote
Mark Hurd
I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13. View quote
Helen Reddy
I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it. View quote
Anneliese van der Pol
I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus. View quote
Beyonce Knowles
My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer. (Bobby Darin)
I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything. View quote
Boz Scaggs
Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously. View quote
Charley Pride
I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies. View quote
Dagmara Dominczyk
But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do. View quote
Debbie Harry