Performers Quotes - Page 21

• Great performers welcome pressure.

  John Eliot

  Achievement, Pressure, Welcome

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• If you look at high performers they are always the most passionate - in any industry.

  Brendon Burchard

  Looks, Passionate, Industry

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• A high performer is someone who says, 'I want to be the best at what I'm doing.'

  Brendon Burchard

  Want, Being The Best

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• Ryan [Gosling] has a history with the Mickey Mouse Club. He was a child performer himself. And he took the time to get to know people.

  Joel Silver

  Children, People, Clubs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.

  Ronnie Wood

  Sleep, Good Friend, Player

  "Musicians, actors and celebrities react to news of Prince's death", www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2016.

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• Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.

  Florence King

  Knowing, Mediocrity, Singers

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.58, Macmillan

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• Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.

  Studs Terkel

  Artist, Self, Jazz

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• What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women can be human beings, with a chance to exercise their infinitely varied gifts in infinitely varied ways, instead of being destined by the accident of their sex to one field of activity--housework and child-raising. And second, if and when they choose housework and child-raising to have that occupation recognized by the world as work, requiring a definite economic reward and not merely entitling the performer to be dependent on some man.

  Crystal Eastman

  Sex, Children, Exercise

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• ... 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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• I don't have the desire that I think a lot of performers feel - to get the applause. It's not life or death for me. I love it and it's exciting, but it's not something I crave or miss, so I don't need to perform; I don't have that desire. I like to sing, and I love doing what I'm doing, but it's not a dire need.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Thinking, Missing, Desire

  Interview with George Christy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2011.

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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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• Any performer would love to have the opportunity to be able to express themselves in many different areas. If you feel confident in those areas, you would hope to have the opportunity to do them, whether it's drama, comedy, musical, or whatever your interests are.

  Bryan Cranston

  Drama, Opportunity, Musical

  "Vince Gilligan and Bryan Cranston Talk BREAKING BAD, Deciding to End the Series, the Series Finale, the Saul Goodman Spin-off, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 15, 2013.

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• When I get hired as an actor as opposed to a writer, one of things that's exciting for me is doing stuff I wouldn't normally do myself. So whether it's a kid's movie or a voice in animation or in this case - where I just get to be silly, it's a different kind of comedy for me. As a performer, it's a different pleasure than when you're writing or directing. As a performer, you're just in the hands of the director and you go with whatever they want to do.

  Stephen Merchant

  Silly, Writing, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• People don't walk around thinking of themselves as bad people. You're part of the environment that you grow up in, and there can be decency in that. I always try to find a little glimmer of that, in anything that I do, because you can find places where there's humor or lightness in something that's deep and profound, and that tends to resonate more and make people more human. As an actor and performer, I think it resonates more with the audience when you do have the payoff.

  Jimmy Smits

  Growing Up, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.

  Liza Minnelli

  Theatrical

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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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• Being an elite performer on the playing field of life is not about being perfect. Rather, it is about cultivating a mental focus towards mastery in every area of your life. It is about commiting yourself, from the core of your heart, to manifest and polish your highest talents and become the person you are destined to be.

  Robin Sharma

  Heart, Perfect, Focus

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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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• 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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• The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.

  Michelle Shocked

  Appreciation, Thinking, Would Be

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• Oh sure, I have lots of fears. My job is to conquer my fears. The irony of being a performer is that I have huge insecurities. Each of us is responsible for what happens in our lives. When good things happen, we take ownership, but when bad things happen we often don't take responsibility. There are no mistakes or accidents. Consciousness is everything and all things begin with a thought. We are responsible for our own fate. We reap what we sow, we get what we give and we pull in what we put out.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Jobs, Mistake, Responsibility

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• I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?

  Pauly Shore

  Thinking, Kind, Feels

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• Dave Chappelle is about as gifted as it gets, as a performer and comedian. [...] It's always great to watch him work. He started around fourteen and he's in his forties now, so he's probably been doing it for close to thirty years. He's brilliant.

  Ted Alexandro

  Years, Comedian, Watches

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it" by Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• I used to play for 200 people and now I'm selling out places that hold 16,000 people. It's a big change, and it's so cool to see people out there screaming the words to songs that I wrote. It just really reassures me that what I'm doing is working, and it really boosts my confidence, as far as on stage as a performer and a writer.

  Miranda Lambert

  Song, Play, People

  Source: www.today.com

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• The best results come when people believe in and feel strongly about the music they are playing. Just as composers write for certain types of performers, performers are also looking for certain things.

  Michael Hersch

  Believe, Writing, People

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