Performers Quotes · Page 12

I'm much more interested in lesser-known eccentrics and characters and performers. Like Matthew Buchinger, who was born in Germany in 1674, had…

— Ricky Jay

I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be.

— Billy Crystal

Performance shots are a waste of time, they look like everyone else's. If you want to shoot a performer, then grab them,…

— Art Kane

I'm usually put off by performers when they get political

— Tracey Ullman

I think Phil Collins is one of the most underrated musicians, singers, performers - he is absolutely amazing, I think, and I…

— Rick Astley

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

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

— Darren Criss

I've dabbled in running around on stage, and at certain times it's nice to step away from the anchor of the piano…

— Sara Bareilles

... it took me five years of going right into the mouth of the lion to learn to be at ease onstage…

— Rory Block

As a director, you have a thousand things going on in your head, and of course, that's going to be difficult. That's…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only…

— Alban Berg

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out…

— Fred Astaire

You have to be willing to be a live performer, if you want to make money as an independent.

— Ben Rosenfield

I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.

— Ronnie Wood

Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work,…

— Peter Drucker

I still get excited performing live. When you see the immediate reaction from a crowd, its like being a theater performer, its…

— Marilyn Manson

I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist.…

— Richie Havens

All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream.

— John Eliot

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what…

— Edith Head

I always say that comedians and actors were all kind of shy when they were young. I was very, believe it or…

— Don Rickles

You can't ask a guy like me why [I performed]. I really wanted to fly through the air. I was a daredevil,…

— Evel Knievel

I wasn't really writing anything that I felt was worth it at the end, but then certain things sparked me as a…

— William Beckett

I’m really only responsible to make sure that one person is clapping at the end of my life. Because I feel like…

— Jon Foreman

Stress is the high-level performers PowerBar.

— John Eliot