Performers Quotes - Page 15

• For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

  Uma Thurman

  Real, Writing, Heart

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• I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.

  Kate Voegele

  Unique, Night, Thinking

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• Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.

  Charles Garfield

  Determination, Missions, Ability

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• The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

  Charles Garfield

  Thinking, Differences, Excellence

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• Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

  Charles Garfield

  Powerful, Eye, Thinking

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• I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.

  Patti LuPone

  Thinking, Wonderful

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• A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

  Patti LuPone

  Rocks, Kind, Middle

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• 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.

  Sheryl Crow

  Years, Generations, Moments

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• I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.

  Richard Widmark

  Thinking, Shut Up, Should

  "Television" by Dick Adler, www.nytimes.com. March 7, 1971.

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• A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Stars, Athlete, Quality

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• 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.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Class, Parent, Chosen

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• I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly.

  Faith Hill

  Mom, Gears, Able

  "We Love Faith Hill". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. October 1, 2006.

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• All the world's indeed a stage
  And we are merely players
  Performers and portrayers
  Each another's audience outside the gilded cage

  Neil Peart

  Player, World, Cages

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• Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Giving, Drug, Give Me

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• When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Giving Up, Giving, Nervous

  "Glastonbury: Bruce Forsyth 'very emotional' after one of biggest gigs of his life" by Mark Jefferies, www.mirror.co.uk. June 30, 2013.

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• Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when they know nothing about history.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Ignorance, Arrogance, Combination

  "'Little Eichmanns' and 'Digital Brownshirts'" by Victor Davis Hanson, www.nationalreview.com. March 18, 2005.

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• What I love most about playing in front of people has something to do with a certain kind of energy exchange. The attention and appreciation of my audience feeds back into my playing. It really seems as if there is a true and equal give and take between performer and listener, making me aware of how much I depend on my audience. And since the audience is different every night, the music being played will differ too. Every space I performed in has its own magic and spirit.

  Nils Frahm

  Appreciation, Night, Space

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• Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

  Billy Eichner

  Sound, Actors, Outgoing

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

  Simon Cowell

  Interesting, Personality, Conflict

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• There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.

  Janet Jackson

  Inspiration, Artist, Bigs

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• Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.

  Ciara

  Perfection

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• Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

  Denis Lavant

  Expression, Dancer, Firsts

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• You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.

  Sondre Lerche

  Play, Arena, Intimate

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• Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.

  Damian McGinty

  Get Better, Doing Nothing, Rest Of Your Life

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone.

  Amy Seimetz

  Drama, Reading, Reality

  "Amy Seimetz Discusses Her Busy Year and Why She Hates Being Labeled a ‘Breakout’". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. April 26, 2013.

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