Performers Quotes

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  Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Theatre, Different, Roles

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• Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

  Elton John

  Hard Work, Reality, Band

  "Elton John: Wannabe Stars Have to Pay Their Dues". www.foxnews.com. September 20, 2004.

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• Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

  Alban Berg

  Feelings, Composer, Music Is

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• Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

  Steve Carell

  Actors, Magician

  "Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein Talk THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. March 11, 2013.

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• We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

  Laurence Olivier

  Time, Kings, Politician

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

  Les Baxter

  Song, Imagination, Challenges

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• I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?

  Alan Vega

  Real, Men, People

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• I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

  Marc Maron

  Thinking, Taste, Inspired

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• We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.

  Penn Jillette

  Believe, People, Needs

  "Voodoo and Violence". Interview with Steve Kurtz, reason.com. April 1994.

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• The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.

  Eric Whitacre

  Feelings, Going Away, Composer

  Twitter post from May 20, 2016

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• The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is important. You might feel in yourself that you're doing it ok but it's when you get the live reaction that you know you're doing it right.

  Tony Iommi

  Silly, Talking, Feelings

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• Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.

  Eve Ensler

  Dance, Moving Forward, Space

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• When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode?...My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust.

  Elizabeth Streb

  Life, Dance, Dream

  Elizabeth Streb (2010). “Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero”, p.51, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

  Harry Houdini

  Iron, Magic, Hot

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.38, 谷月社

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• I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

  Khandi Alexander

  Teaching, Arena, Done

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• Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

  Jamie Farr

  Hockey, Player, Wonderful

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• That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.

  Donald O'Connor

  Missing, Over You, Three

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• Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

  Jamie Farr

  Bills, Canada, Wonderful

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• If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Vacuums, Feedback, Audience

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• Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

  Ade Edmondson

  Smart, Sassy, Comedian

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

  David Antin

  Thinking, Giving, Use

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• That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures.

  Robert Stack

  Thinking, Special, Motion Pictures

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• I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.

  Bobby Vinton

  People, Sam Cooke

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