Performers Quotes · Page 15

The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the…

— Cher

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't…

— Dick Cavett

I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

Something very rare in this day and age is to see performers do something that has never been done before.

— Matt Hardy

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is…

— Earle Brown

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around…

— Andy Goldsworthy

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ben Rosenfield

My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing.…

— William Hung

An actor stands in front of a camera onstage, and he controls time and space for the audience. He tells them how…

— John Michael Higgins

A place like Sound City, which was just a big, beautiful room where you would hit record and capture the sound of…

— Dave Grohl

I think there are people with the genes for being natural performers. Sometimes they go haywire and destroy themselves because of it…

— Agnes Moorehead

For me I always need to have two sides to me when I play! I need to be a performer and at…

— Hiromi

I was 17 when I auditioned for 'Miss Saigon.' I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a…

— Lea Salonga

I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what…

— Mel Torme

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've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the…

— Leon Redbone

Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn…

— Olivia Hussey

The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their…

— Charles Garfield

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

Find me any performer anywhere who isn't egocentric. You'd better believe you're good, or you've got no business being out there.

— Johnny Carson

I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days…

— Lena Horne

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the…

— Brian McKnight

You might be feeling sick or a little down, but the second you hit the stage and hear the crowd, you're ready…

— Mark McGrath

At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat…

— Damien Chazelle

There are certain performers that the gay community receives and recognizes with love, and my whole life, I've always responded to those…

— Annaleigh Ashford

I love albums that have guest performers that the audience will be happy to hear. It's really a bonus!

— Lisa Loeb

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

I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. [And] I want to be known for what…

— George Carlin

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent,…

— Frank Sinatra

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

— Jack Kirby

Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.

— Robert Gottlieb

The British tradition, basically, is to go to the character. And the Hollywood tradition, shall we say, is basically to take the…

— John Hurt

There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

— Beyonce Knowles

When I watch comedy I love to see that pleasure in the performer's eye and that sense of cheek - and even…

— Mathew Baynton

I've worked with genius performers. Sometimes they created great work with a bad script... but not often. Play it safe: write well.

— Jerry Juhl

That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.

— Ted Alexandro

Few things turn-off an audience more than a performer with an air of self-imporance or a 'message.'

— Jay Sankey

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

— Amanda Marshall

We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of…

— Neil Tennant