Performers Quotes - Page 18

• ... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.

  Leontyne Price

  Art, Voice, Race

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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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• It was also great to have the Backstreet Boys appear on stage with me because I have gotten to know them all a little bit just recently, and not only are they great performers, but they also very hard working professionals and really nice guys.

  Elton John

  Nice, Hard Work, Boys

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• The average performer stops when they face fear. Iconic producer accelerates once they get frightened.

  Robin Sharma

  Fear, Average, Faces

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• 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.

  Vinny Testaverde

  Sports, Add, Looks

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• I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I'd like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I'm not Mother Teresa. I can't do that.

  Bea Arthur

  Mother, Empty Rooms, Wish

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• People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.

  Bob Dylan

  Emotional, Media, People

  "Bob Dylan Exclusive Interview: Reveals His Favorite Songwriters, Thoughts On His Own Cult Figure Status". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2009.

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• I grew up in the spoken-word community. Before everybody had a home studio, or before we could get booked for shows, open mics were the only way to be heard by other people. It really gave me a chance to develop as a performer. Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

  Macklemore

  Reading, Home, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's one thing to be sitting at a drawing board, alone in your home and coming up with a fantasy character, and drawing her whichever way you feel like drawing, then dealing with a real performer. All of a sudden, things change. It's amazing, in working with actors, how much I learn from them and how many new lines will come to mind because of their personality or their strengths.

  Frank Miller

  Real, Character, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• A writer is a performer as well. A writer isn't the literary department. That gets tried on but nothing's a script unless a good writer goes away and does his thing alone.

  William Monahan

  Scripts, Doe, Wells

  "Exclusive: William Monahan Candidly Discusses THE GAMBLER, His Severe Bike Accident Earlier This Year, His Approach to Writing, MOJAVE, VENGEANCE, John Le Carre’s A DELICATE TRUTH, Television, and More". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 12, 2014.

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• Sarah [Silverman] writes her own jokes. She doesn't just go through her life and talk about everything. She sits down and crafts jokes. Sometimes her inspiration comes from areas of her life that are risqué. But she is an A-plus professional joke-writer in addition to being very attractive and a great performer.

  Mindy Kaling

  Inspiration, Writing, Crafts

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I'm a Gemini, so there's two people in me. Straight up. There's the nerd who is totally zoned out in the studio, EQ-ing this kick drum, raising this snare one decibel, or swapping this high hat out for another. Then there's the other side who's a performer. I have to go out on stage and be electric, a fire cracker, just run around the stage and give a show.

  G-Eazy

  Running, Two, Fire

  Source: 215mag.com

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• It's a great time to be a comedian because you've got so much more control. You can say what you want to. I think in the old days with the studio system the performer was a bit of an afterthought. You can be a wildcard on the internet. But if you put something on the internet once it's out there it's out there for life.

  Bill Burr

  Thinking, Comedian, Want

  Interview with Bruce Dessau, www.beyondthejoke.co.uk. November 15, 2013.

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• An actor stands in front of a camera onstage, and he controls time and space for the audience. He tells them how long this will take, where to look, when to look, what to think about it. And good performers should be able to do their part with the sound off.

  John Michael Higgins

  Thinking, Space, Long

  Interview with Steve Heisler, film.avclub.com. June 23, 2011.

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• Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

  Scott Aukerman

  Successful, Years, Obscurity

  "Scott Aukerman of Comedy Death-Ray". Interview with Kyle Ryan, tv.avclub.com. June 22, 2010.

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• The zenith of virtuosity, a violinist like Jascha Heifetz, the supernatural in a pianist like Vladimir Horowitz, these are performers who were so idiosyncratic and personal that to imitate them would be like filling somebody else's bottle with your wine.

  David Finckel

  Wine, Would Be, Bottles

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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• I just listen to so much music that I like the role music can play in scoring something. I'm not doing song parodies or funny songs, I'm just adding some music to my words. So it's limited and specific, but as a performer I find it pretty enjoyable.

  Demetri Martin

  Song, Play, Roles

  Source: www.isthmus.com

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• I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Gay, Rumor, Hearing

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• There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.

  Beverly Sills

  Artist, Careers, Triumph

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• One of the common traits of outstanding performers-coaches, athletes, managers, sales representatives, executives, and others who face a daily up/down, win/lose accounting system-is that a rejection, that is, defeat, is quickly forgotten, replaced eagerly by pursuit of a new order, client, or opponent.

  Bill Walsh

  Athlete, Winning, Order

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.256, Penguin

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• Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.

  Mick Jagger

  Steps, Stage, Persons

  "Mick Jagger & Chadwick Boseman Talk 'Get On Up,' James Brown and a Rolling Stones Biopic". Interview with Tatiana Siegel, www.billboard.com. July 25, 2014.

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• I believe a lot in the relationship between performers. When you're supported by someone's eyes, you're not alone.

  Clemence Poesy

  Believe, Eye, Not Alone

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even going to college, getting my degree in Radio TV and Film, as I was approaching the time when you have to decide on a major, I kept trying to figure out what would be the best major to enhance what I am doing as a performer.

  Jeff Dunham

  College, Trying, Tvs

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• Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

  Edith Piaf

  Fly Away, Dove, Should

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• I never talk about what I'm writing about currently, never. It's private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Writing, Needs, Made

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