Performers Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Doubters, Persons, Secure

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.90, InterVarsity Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Having the presence of mind to react to any situation onstage is what makes the best performers keep their spontaneity intact.

  Marni Nixon

  Presence Of Mind, Spontaneity, Situation

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• As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

  Russell Brand

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• In every language you can imagine I've had people say 'Appetite For Destruction' is the soundtrack to their lives. I don't think you could say something nicer to an entertainer or performer - can't get more respectful.

  Steven Adler

  Thinking, People, Language

  "Steven Adler Talks Guns N' Roses Rock Hall Induction, New Project, Drug Use + More". Interview with Graham Hartmann, loudwire.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Society is about masks and hiding and pretending to be something that you're not and not opening up, and in acting, you do all of those things, but it also shows the performers in a very raw state. They have to literally upset themselves to get to that position sometimes. You don't need a load of people judging you or not being interested in what you're doing or being an ass on set because it ruins it.

  Ben Wheatley

  Opening Up, People, Judging

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. Were loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Thinking, People, Dying

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

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• There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Sexy, Fun, Sides

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• I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

  Lady Gaga

  Destiny, My Destiny

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• The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it's not easy for me.

  Margaret Cho

  Stuff, Easy, Social

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• Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.

  Eric Liu

  Jobs, Couple, Men

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• I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Girl, Littles, Used

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• I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.

  Paloma Faith

  Girl, Vegas, Inspired

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• I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

  Paloma Faith

  Years, Age, Four

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• Although I'm predominantly known for game-shows, I do prefer to be known as a performer.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Games, Shows, Known

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• A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

  Renee Fleming

  House, Opera, Want

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• Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

  Lady Gaga

  Thinking, Musical, Standpoint

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