Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was… — Dana Plato Copy Share Image
In the performer's body, you don't care how you look. It doesn't matter if you're old, fat, beautiful, or ugly. It doesn't… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope.… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard… — Alessandro Nivola Copy Share Image
I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive.… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I adored Freddie Mercury and Queen had a hit called Radio Gaga. That's why I love the name. Freddie was unique -… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Even going to college, getting my degree in Radio TV and Film, as I was approaching the time when you have to… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
As an actress, you're living something through the duration of the play and its geography. I've always seen writing the same way.… — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
Top performers in their fields such as Debbie Moore, Jean-Christophe Novelli, Deborah Meaden and Jo Malone, did not go to university and… — Esther McVey Copy Share Image
When the theater is gothic it matches the sensibility of the show. It's also very intimate. The audience is very close to… — Frank Wildhorn Copy Share Image
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only… — Alban Berg Copy Share Image
The proliferation of new music groups and individual performers focusing on new music today is heartening. On the one hand the culture… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish… — Bea Arthur Copy Share Image
I don't think you necessarily have to be the most perfected performer, in order to express your feelings. It's really those feelings… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I feel like with our shows it always feels weird to be performers on stage and not engaging in audience interaction in… — Taraka Larson Copy Share Image
I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you… — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk; you're out there performing and… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
The best shows have a clear idea of what they want to achieve, where the performers have the ability to disrupt normality… — Lyn Gardner Copy Share Image
It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities… — Helene Grimaud Copy Share Image
Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write... Writing, for me, is still it. It… — Clive James Copy Share Image
It's never like we're up there being miserable at work, that's not something that happens for us. We love our work. So,… — Jennifer Abbott Copy Share Image
I grew up in the spoken-word community. Before everybody had a home studio, or before we could get booked for shows, open… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Prince is the ultimate performer. Prince is that dude that's going to get on stage by himself, if he need to, but… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with, but then you… — Alan Licht Copy Share Image
The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on. Since you… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There's been (if you sort of scan the magazines) announcements of different performers that has come and tried to get the British… — Tina Turner Copy Share Image
As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding.… — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Sarah [Silverman] writes her own jokes. She doesn't just go through her life and talk about everything. She sits down and crafts… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I am used to being on tours with people who are fantastic performers and I respect them and I love their music.… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image