Performers Quotes - Page 26

• I think the most important thing is to establish myself as an actor. As much as it's a performing art, I'm not really a performer.

  Zac Efron

  Art, Thinking, Important

  "EXCLUSIVE: Zac Efron and Vanessa Anne Hudgens Sing Their Praises for High School Musical". Movieweb Interview, movieweb.com. May 22, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't know why people don't want to talk about their numbers. I guess in a sense, there's a bit of performer nudity, a bit of ego nudity when you expose your numbers, I guess because someone's are higher or someone's are lower. I've never really talked about the numbers with anyone, so maybe I'm not supposed to.

  Chris Hardwick

  Numbers, People, Ego

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up. Just the concept of "I had this idea" and within a week it was in the world, that was a part of why it felt weirdly empowering as a performer.

  Chris Hardwick

  Air, Years, Ideas

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, tv.avclub.com. December 29, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Dancer, Competition

  4 Copy quote

• Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for note (if not expression for expression) by others, jazz was a performer's not a composer's art.

  Russell Lynes

  Art, New Orleans, Expression

  12 Copy quote

• As a director, you have a thousand things going on in your head, and of course, that's going to be difficult. That's going to mean that some things get overlooked. And so, for us as performers, being the selfish pricks that we are, we're sitting there being concerned about ourselves all the time and our character's through-line.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Selfish, Character, Mean

  Source: collider.com

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.

  Mario Bunge

  Teacher, Community, Musical

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• For me I always need to have two sides to me when I play! I need to be a performer and at the same time the producer. So I need to be somewhere up in the air and producing my music. I can't just be the performer; otherwise I can't see the whole view. I need the big view!

  Hiromi

  Up In The Air, Play, Two Sides

  5 Copy quote

• Serving and helping are great things, but we can go too far. Managers should not adopt poor performers. Colleagues should not cover for each other's mistakes. Parents should not enable their children.

  John G. Miller

  Children, Mistake, Parent

  Source: www.jmlalonde.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you are truly fearless as a performer, than you don't fear kids or dogs.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Dog, Kids, Fearless

  "Interview: Actor Thomas Haden Church is Character Driven in 'Max'". Interview with Patrick McDonald, www.hollywoodchicago.com. June 25, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was a child, I dreamt of being a big star. I truly believed that I would be world famous someday, but that doesn't seem so important. What's important to me is getting to live my life as an artist, and making my passion my work. I have never wanted to be anything other than an actor and performer, and each day that I get to do that is a day well spent.

  Jinkx Monsoon

  Stars, Children, Passion

  Source: seattlegayscene.com

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined and not wasting time. It's wild. And it's a great thing when you see a performer really able to.

  Henry Rollins

  Blow, Talking, Ideas

  Source: oustedproductions.net

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's always been impressive to me when someone can really do what they want onstage. The audience has confidence in the performer and the performer has confidence in the crowd.

  Henry Rollins

  Crowds, Want, Impressive

  Source: oustedproductions.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Broadway is not just the song and the shows; it's the individual performers and the community.

  Darren Criss

  Song, Community, Broadway

  "Inside Darren Criss' Plan to Create an Annual Music Festival With Broadway Performers". Interview with Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 26, 2015.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think a lot of longevity, especially as a performer, depends on kind of what your commodity is. If your commodity is your cuteness and your chubby cheeks and your big gap between your teeth, if that's what your greatest asset is, of course that fails or that changes, you know, that goes away. Of course that fades.

  Fred Savage

  Thinking, Gaps, Teeth

  "Why Fred Savage put directing on hold to star in ‘The Grinder’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 28, 2015.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• By the 1970s, pornography had caught up with The Block, where performers were totally in the nude. I wasn't going to do that, and I certainly wasn't about to let my girls do it. After all, I'm religious, and if my mother knew I was performing in the nude, she would have had a heart attack.

  Blaze Starr

  Girl, Mother, Religious

  9 Copy quote

• The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

  Nat King Cole

  White, Ease

  8 Copy quote

• When I'm on stage, I feel like a performer, for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures and singing along, and that part's wonderful.

  Carrie Underwood

  People, Singing, Wonderful

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'd like to think I could physically manage doing that, but I don't think it feels authentic to the kind of performer that I am. I think that, for me, being stationary and just sort of singing the songs seems to be the most connected and authentic expression for me on stage.

  Sara Bareilles

  Song, Thinking, Expression

  Source: www.glamour.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.

  Gordon Smith

  Radio, Advertising, Grammy

  10 Copy quote

• As an actor and as a performer, I'm very much aware of the fact that my job is to change both physically and emotionally and that was what hurt the most - the fact that people were judging me based on nothing.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Hurt, Jobs, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some people are good at performing in front of people like that, but I'm uncomfortable at it. I think maybe that's the difference between acting and being a performer. I don't think I'm a natural performer.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, Differences, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• But on balance, a performer wants to feel that there's something there which stands out because you put a lot of effort into it, a lot of energy and a lot of yourself into something. I feel pretty successful about some movies I've been in that have not been greeted with a lot of enthusiasm and I do trust my own criteria.

  Ben Affleck

  Successful, Effort, Balance

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

  Barry Manilow

  Goal, Musician, Wanted

  "Barry Manilow on Anthony Weiner and the Trappings of Fame: 'I Know That Feeling'". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 16, 2011.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.

  Michael Ian Black

  Goal, Trying, Actors

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source