Performers Quotes - Page 13

• You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

  Terry Eagleton

  Long, Different, Actors

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• The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Constant

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

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Doe, Particular, Translators

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• Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Dancer, Actors, World

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• I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.

  Mark Russell

  Thinking, Television, Persons

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• Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.

  Eve Arnold

  Moving, Skills, Musician

  Eve Arnold (2002). “Film Journal”, p.16, A&C Black

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• My entire life, I've always known that I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know exactly how, where or when. I never learned or studied the craft, formally. I grew up doing martial arts and playing piano. But, something inside of me always said that I was going to do this, as far back as I can remember.

  Laz Alonso

  Art, Piano, Crafts

  "Laz Alonso talks James Cameron's AVATAR - Could it be the first of a Trilogy?". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 5, 2009.

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• I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

  Jenny Slate

  People, Want

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

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• One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

  Carla Bley

  Art, Band, Music Is

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• I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

  Cate Blanchett

  Order

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• I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.

  Samantha Bee

  Thinking, People, Shy

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

  Simon Baker

  Kids, Clown, Bits

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

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• I'm not like a performer type.

  Dave Attell

  Type

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. February 19, 2003.

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• There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

  Tom Conti

  People, Film And Television, Frustrating

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

  Fefe Dobson

  Pain, Real, Being Alone

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.

  Dagmara Dominczyk

  Love Is, Holes, Dies

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• I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Kings, Thinking, Rocks

  Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. August 2, 2015.

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• 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.

  Warwick Davis

  Running, Agency, Feet

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• Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.

  Willem Dafoe

  Dancer, Actors, Doers

  "Willem Dafoe: 'You do your best work when you're scared" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.

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• Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

  Melanie Fiona

  Performing, Wanted, Hard

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• People tend to think that because I'm a performer and I don't go to a regular high school that I haven't personally been affected by bullies. But it's actually quite the contrary.

  Ariana Grande

  School, Thinking, People

  "Even Performers Like Me Get Bullied" by Ariana Grande, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• Some writers are more natural public performers than others; personally I find it quite strange giving interviews. But everyone has parts of their job that they like more than others. You can't complain if you get to do what you love doing most of the time, can you?

  Monica Ali

  Jobs, Giving, Complaining

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• It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.

  John Hurt

  Business, People, Fewer

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• I think there's something unfortunate about the attention that performers get in our media, but the weight of government propaganda is so heavy that anyone with a different point of view who has access to the media has a responsibility to use it.

  David Clennon

  Responsibility, Thinking, Views

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• 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?

  Colin Firth

  Party, Substance, Actors

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