Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a… — Betty Buckley Copy Share Image
Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And… — Bruce Forsyth Copy Share Image
We're not very confident performers, and if we don't get a laugh we get insecure. — Kyle Gass Copy Share Image
I think Elvis loved his fans - I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious… — Minnie Pearl Copy Share Image
I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it. — Anneliese van der Pol Copy Share Image
I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many… — Michael Richards Copy Share Image
I always call performing live "giving the people the medicine," because when you're engaged in it, you can feel the sort of… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
I used to play for 200 people and now I'm selling out places that hold 16,000 people. It's a big change, and… — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out… — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I think the actor or performer should be - to touch that truth inside of a person. Touch that reality so much… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
All of a sudden one day I was like, I'm good at this! Oh, man! People are not giving me jobs because… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
The encore is the short piece after the program has finished, where the performer brings out something that the audience doesn't expect. — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person. — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing is to establish myself as an actor. As much as it's a performing art, I'm not… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes. — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
The visual side of being a performer or in a band is, to me, as important as the music. I know not… — Tamaryn Copy Share Image
Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters… — Erving Goffman 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
I like being a musician that's also a fly on the wall. I like people coming in the room and doing what… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street… — Denis Lavant Copy Share Image
