Performers Quotes - Page 32

• So often, I have seen really, really talented performers never quite relating to material. I mean, there's a lot of gay actors, for example, that are obviously gay. They're not going to be able to do some of the material. Some of them they can, some of them they can't.

  Julie Halston

  Mean, Gay, Example

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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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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• I try to have a very well-rounded group of friends that did a lot of different things and weren't just performers. Because I feel like there's both less feeling of competitiveness, and it put my own career in perspective.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Careers, Perspective, Feelings

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Maybe there is a feeling that women get judged more about how they look and how they present themselves visually as opposed to what they are thinking and feeling. Especially as a female performer that happens a lot, and I think that is regressing even more, which I find really sad.

  Planningtorock

  Thinking, Feelings, Female

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

  Alice Cooper

  Play, Silence, Audience

  Interview with Mike Quigley, www.mjq.net. September 1969.

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• Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor.

  Emilio Estevez

  Travel, Adventure, Night

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• I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

  Lady Gaga

  Beauty, Girl, Believe

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• I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

  Norah Jones

  Clubs, Jazz, Restaurants

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• More than an actor, I am a performer... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Cinema, Actors, Want

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• I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Different, Inspired, Brown

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• Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Musician, Jazz, Force

  "Cellist Yo Yo Ma: His career and music". www.cnn.com. March 15, 2001.

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• There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Littles, Performances

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.283, Harvard University Press

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• The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they are doing, and nothing else...They let it happen, let it go. They couldn't care less about the results.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, Player, Thinking

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• If you buy all the stocks selling at or below two times earnings, you will lose money on half of them because instead of making profits they will actually lose money, but you will only lose a dollar or so a share at most. Then others will be mediocre performers. But the remaining big winners will go up and produce fabulous results and also ensure a good overall result.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Two, Dollars

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• I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.

  Minnie Pearl

  Stars, Redneck, Caring

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• I think Elvis loved his fans - I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious and sensitive to the fact that performers love them.

  Minnie Pearl

  Redneck, Thinking, Facts

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• Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Inspiration, Love Is, Joy

  Sri Aurobindo Mandir, Calcutta, Aurobindo Ghose (1943). “Annual”

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• Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

  Mac Davis

  Lying, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Interview with singer/songwriter Mac Davis". Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. May 09, 2015.

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• I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.

  Justin Timberlake

  Success, Simple, Thinking

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• Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.

  Charley Pride

  Taken, Fans

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• To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Friendship, Casts, Knows

  Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

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• The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience.

  Cher

  Age, Firsts, Realizing

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• The true exceptional performer is on super pilot. Every single sense, every fiber of his body is brought together in what he is doing.

  John Eliot

  Together, Body, Pilots

  John Eliot (2006). “Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

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• Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on. Since you must procrastinate anyway, decide today to procrastinate on low-value activities.

  Brian Tracy

  Differences, Today, Determined

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.

  Mel Torme

  Believe, People, Appreciate

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