Performers Quotes · Page 8

I'm growing as an actor and performer every week.

— Allison Holker

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

— Tony Bennett

I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.

— Richard Widmark

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

— Thomas Haden Church

Shawn Michaels is quite simply the greatest performer in WWE history.

— Chris Jericho

You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

— Luke Bryan

I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.

— Fergie

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

— Alban Berg

Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.

— Brian Tracy

As for whether I am a 'new age guru', I am not at all. I help companies build employees who lead without…

— Robin S. Sharma

All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves…

— Anonymous

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street…

— Denis Lavant

I learned a lot about my audience and about myself as a performer, what I like to do live.

— Miranda Lambert

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

— Peter Maxwell Davies

The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I…

— Emanuel Ax

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

— Brian Setzer

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to…

— Clive Davis

Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before…

— Chris Hardwick

Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think that all the talented filmmakers sort of share, I think, a sense of allowing magic to happen; of creating a…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

No matter what, I will always prefer a live performance. Whether it be a play or a musical, or playing music live.…

— Darren Criss

Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself…

— George Carlin

There are plenty of actors who've caught the singing bug and vice versa, but with musical performers, you're constantly a persona -…

— Freddie Stroma

I think it's important as a performer, no matter where I travel, if I run into someone at the airport or I'm…

— Reggie Watts

I think as a performer, it can be really great to stand on stage, especially when you have more time, but I…

— Demetri Martin

It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of…

— Rene Balcer

If you're looking at the array of performers, there's just a lot of people that it's about getting closer to them. That's…

— John Flansburgh

I'm a Gemini, so there's two people in me. Straight up. There's the nerd who is totally zoned out in the studio,…

— G-Eazy

Just concentrate on the performers. Make sure you get the performers, and that's it. That's all we need to do." And I…

— Edgar Wright

It's very advantageous to be sensitive with your work - and, yet, being sensitive, in reality, when criticized, it can annihilate you.…

— Michael Crawford

I did get good enough to get on HBO's Young Comedians Special, but I certainly wasn't the person who got launched off…

— Judd Apatow

We performers sacrifice so much for your entertainment.

— Rose McGowan

I wouldn't give a performer something I couldn't deliver myself.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.

— Sondre Lerche

You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not…

— Victoria Beckham

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association,…

— Michael Richards

The audience loves to figure things out. They love it when a performer leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them, and…

— Keegan-Michael Key

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

— James Agate

Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work…

— Kiki Dee