Performer Quotes - page 3

There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating. (Tom Conti)
When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer. View quote
Tamara Tunie
I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch. View quote
Wanda Jackson
Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before. View quote
Wayne Newton
My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has. View quote
William Hung
My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer. View quote
Zhang Ziyi
Quite often, when actors have such a strong charisma in real life, eventually it has to affect the characters they play. For myself I'm not charismatic in that way. I'm not a "performer". Ideally I would stay mute as River. That's the reason why, for a long time, I've said the opposite of what I really thought. In interviews, I've also played characters that I wasn't. I've lied and often contradicted myself to dumbfound people. It's all over now, because I have nothing left to hide. Eventually, I'm quite an ordinary person. View quote
River Phoenix
I'm a total performer. View quote
Aaliyah
What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line. View quote
Earle Brown
No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth. View quote
Harry Houdini
It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer. (Harry Houdini)
Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer. View quote
Harry Houdini
This accessible production [of Don Giovanni - ed. ] concentrates on the comic delights of the piece and rests heavily on the roguish charms of Vytautas Juozapaitis in the title role. Indeed, he's so delightfully decadent, and so charismatic a performer, that the righteous indignation of those he has harmed makes them seem priggish in comparison. View quote
Vytautas Juozapaitis
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. View quote
Nat King Cole
No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer. View quote
Liza Minnelli
Consistent poetry is made of letters. Letters have no idea. Letters as such have no sound, they offer only tonal possibilities, to be valuated by the performer. The consistent poem weighs the value of both letters and groups. View quote
Kurt Schwitters
My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance? View quote
Colin Firth
I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director. View quote
William Shatner
The late Mr. [Carl] Sandburg was a public performer of the first rank ("Ker-oh-seen!" he crooned in one of the first TV pitches for the jet-engine - ole banjo on his knee, white hair mussed by the jet-stream), a poet of the second rank (who can ever forget that feline-footed fog?) and a biographer of awesome badness. View quote
Gore Vidal
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. View quote
Ted Williams
Howard is a dynamic performer on many levels. There you are. He sent me to Liverpool. Marvellous place. Howard was the most effective Home Secretary since Peel. Hang on, was Peel Home Secretary? (Boris Johnson)
When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too. View quote
Shirley Temple
I want to bring a change and do something new and different in my profession, but in the beginning I'll have to toe line, I want to be known as a performer not a star. View quote
Preity Zinta
The most sensitive musical instrument is the human soul. The next is the human voice. One must purify the soul until it begins to sound. A composer is a musical instrument and at the same time, a performer on that instrument. The instrument has to be in order to produce sound. One must start with that, not with the music. Through the music the composer can check whether his instrument is tuned and to what key it is tuned. View quote
Arvo Pärt
I've also been on a pretty strict plant-based diet for 4 months now – feeling stronger, fitter, healthier and more productive. I ride longer distances on my bike, can do more pull-ups than ever, and my brain seems to have a larger capacity for new projects, problem solving, songwriting, and fielding random questions. My health and strength make me a better performer and all that combined gives me more confidence to go out in the world and shine my light. It also makes me a lot better in bed. ... For those curious or concerned about a plant-based diet, check out the film Forks Over Knives. It's a life changer. You can get all the protein you need from greens, quinoa, and hemp seed. View quote
Jason Mraz