Performers Quotes - Page 28

• I think the idea now of being a performer in this era of social media saturation means that you have to be an actor, a musician, a stand-up comic, writer, or a director. Focusing in on one thing doesn't take up all of your time.

  Robbie Rist

  Mean, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.teenagemutantninjaturtles.com

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• When I'm on stage, I feel like a performer for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures. That part's wonderful. But, I live the most boring life away from what you see me on camera doing. The other 300 days out of the year I'm just the most normal person in the universe. I'm a wife. I'm a mother to my doggies. I'm a maid - I clean the house.

  Carrie Underwood

  Mother, Years, People

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days when I came along.

  Lena Horne

  Heard

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• When managers overdo micromanaging of others, they probably hired the wrong people or failed to give them a clear idea of what each one is to accomplish. I prefer to train employees to be self-managers, just as in an orchestra each performer knows his or her role without being micromanaged.

  Philip Kotler

  Self, Ideas, Giving

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. May 10, 2015.

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• It's a very hard line to walk, and I certainly am nowhere near having cracked how to do that, but I try to focus on being a brave performer and not worrying about my lighting or whatever, even though, then, sometimes I see myself on screen, and I'm like, "Why did you wear that, look like that, whatever," but I'm also more accepting that is what it is. There's this battle always.

  June Diane Raphael

  Worry, Brave, Focus

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.

  Ben Stein

  Gratitude, Laughter, Relief

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• Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Weekend, Asian, Different

  "Sanjeev Bhaskar: Goodness, I'm home!". Interview with Tina Jackson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2010.

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• Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

  Dick Cavett

  Talent, Knows

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• I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

  Rosanne Cash

  Want, Grew, Songwriters

  "Rosanne Cash Lists Influences, Including Famous Father’s, in New Memoir". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. August 17, 2010.

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• She [Beyonce] is just an energetic performer and she loves drums. She loves edge.

  Bryce Wilson

  Energetic, Beyonce, Edges

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to sing. No one would cast a dancing part with someone who cannot dance sufficiently to come up to professional standards. The same is true of acting. But when it comes to singing, more often than not it is amateur night. . . . Either musicals should be written for specified performers in the first place, or they should be cast with people who are adequate to its dancing, acting and singing demands.

  Ernest Gold

  Night, Views, Practice

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• Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives.

  Buck Rodgers

  Courage, Long, Agility

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• I’m really only responsible to make sure that one person is clapping at the end of my life. Because I feel like as a performer, a lot of times you live for everyone else’s applause. That’s a dangerous thing within the church or outside the church.

  Jon Foreman

  Church, That One Person, Responsible

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• Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

  Alban Berg

  Reflection, Feelings, Perception

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• Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer.

  Thia Megia

  Song, Believe, Feelings

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• I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that.But I grew into being a performer.

  Rosanne Cash

  Ideas, Feelings, Depth

  "Rosanne Cash Lists Influences, Including Famous Father’s, in New Memoir". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. August 17, 2010.

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• I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.

  Allen Toussaint

  Piano, Forte, Session

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I will definitely start in small venues, as I want to find my feet as a performer; the first shows that Westlife did was ten dates at Wembley, which was just crazy. We didn't have a clue what we were doing because it was so big.

  Shane Filan

  Crazy, Feet, Firsts

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• I don't think you necessarily have to be the most perfected performer, in order to express your feelings. It's really those feelings that an audience connects with, I think, at least as much as perfected technical skill.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Thinking, Order, Skills

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV Season 2, Influencing Other Work, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 12, 2015.

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• One of my favorite places in San-Francisco is Aunt Charlies drag show. You pay $3 and see shows that literally give you goose bumps and bring you to tears. As a performer, you know they're giving 100% and you can't help but cry.

  Christopher Owens

  Aunt, San Francisco, Giving

  Source: www.gq.com

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• You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.

  Frank Sinatra

  Perfect, World, Broads

  "Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s". Book by Michael Johns, 2002.

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• I think the actor or performer should be - to touch that truth inside of a person. Touch that reality so much that they become a part of what you're going and you can take them anywhere you want to.

  Michael Jackson

  Reality, Thinking, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always call performing live "giving the people the medicine," because when you're engaged in it, you can feel the sort of soul magic being exchanged between the performer and the audience.

  Nick Offerman

  Medicine, People, Giving

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• Top performers take action now, they move, they execute.

  Tony Jeary

  Moving, Top Performers, Action

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• I sought a great performer who would deeply impress me, and I found Lior Suchard.

  Uri Geller

  Found, Impress

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