Performers Quotes · Page 4

The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.

— James Galway

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

— Lester Bangs

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

— Martha Reeves

Audiences are far from being as dumb as some performers seem to think.

— Theodore Annemann

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

— Brendon Burchard

We're not very confident performers, and if we don't get a laugh we get insecure.

— Kyle Gass

Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries.

— Robin Sharma

Exceptional performers are masterful opportunists, keenly alert to opportunity!

— Brian Tracy

I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.

— Criss Angel

When somebody is doing something really funny, in real life and as a performer, my instinct is to join them.

— Jake M. Johnson

Try not be resentful or jealous of other people's success. Know that your path as a performer is going to be very…

— Erica Schroeder

When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.

— Paul Lansky

My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.

— Erica Schroeder

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

— Darren Criss

Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.

— Harry Houdini

I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people…

— Kathleen Hanna

There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people…

— Eric Idle

Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong,…

— Studs Terkel

Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I don't have the desire that I think a lot of performers feel - to get the applause. It's not life or…

— Olivia Newton-John

I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on…

— Roselyn Sanchez

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much…

— Robert Gottlieb

The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling…

— John Malkovich

I'd like to think I could physically manage doing that, but I don't think it feels authentic to the kind of performer…

— Sara Bareilles

TV is such a success nowadays because it gives back in a way that features can't. If you go to a film,…

— Milo Ventimiglia

I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area…

— George Carlin

Eric's performance is an awesome and entirely honest expression of the pain and beauty of his music. To watch him play is…

— Tea Leoni

I consider being a performer work. I come from a theater family; I've been an actor all my life. I started acting…

— Torquil Campbell

I've been, I think, able to stay grounded in such a crazy business, and I attribute that a lot to my family,…

— Debbie Gibson

Performers should realize they not only have to prepare themselves for concert purposes as far as memorizing their programs goes, but for…

— Leonard Rose

I really enjoyed working with Daniel [Craig], because he's a brilliant actor at the top of his game. That gave me an…

— Naomie Harris

We talk about how we think, believe, suspect Michael Jackson treats children. We don't talk about how WE treat child stars. Child…

— Margo Jefferson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

— Linda Ronstadt

“Even the world’s greatest actor cannot fake an erection.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

— Russell Brand

I love working with talented young performers.

— Jodi Benson

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

— John Lone

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

— Pete Wentz

It's not my place to say if performers of quenelle should be punished.

— Samuel Eto'o