“I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation… — Oliver Copy Share Image
I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life. — Tom Kenny Copy Share Image
As a performer, I could be like, "I don't want to leave that in there." But as a producer, I have to… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that… — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot. — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
“The elite performers don’t focus on the overwhelming whole – they focus on getting through the next step.” — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
I was looking at making a shift in my career. I've been so blessed I'd like to be able to give that… — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces… — Paloma Picasso Copy Share Image
I've always loved acting, even from when I was a child. But when I got on stage, I realised I couldn't act… — Claron McFadden Copy Share Image
Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The difference between the top performers and the average or mediocre performers is not a great, massive difference. It is just a… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I just turned 40, and I look at so many performers and so many people who are actually always on time and… — Maxwell Copy Share Image
After costs, only the top 3% of managers produce a return that indicates they have sufficient skill to just cover their costs,… — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
I have a respect for Elvis and my friendship. It ain't my business what he did in private. The only thing I… — Sammy Davis, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for… — Wendi McLendon-Covey Copy Share Image
I feel like my dad was the more artistic one, creating his own thing, loving to be around people, and all this… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
It's weird, I love acting and stand-up is a very unique, solitary thing where you are the writer, performer and director. But… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur,… — Charlie Rose Copy Share Image
I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with… — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
That is what lower performers do; they make others wrong for doing what is necessary in order to make themselves feel okay… — Grant Cardone Copy Share Image
As an actor and as a performer, I'm very much aware of the fact that my job is to change both physically… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes… — Christian Camargo Copy Share Image
Being an elite performer on the playing field of life is not about being perfect. Rather, it is about cultivating a mental… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves utterly,… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling… — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
I hope I'm beginning a new cycle of energy and creativity. If so, it'll really be my third career. The first was… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I'm a singer. I'm a dancer. I'm a performer. I'm an actress. That's what I'm supposed to be doing. It makes me… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Because I'm the only performer who comes out and says I've had plastic surgery, I've become the plastic surgery poster girl, which… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Elemental Music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music… — Carl Orff Copy Share Image
Performers may play in the studio, but they need to go out and tour every once in a while to keep their… — John Kao Copy Share Image
Yes, I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want.… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
Pro wrestling was there, and I was good at it, thank God. I started getting a lot of offers, but unfortunately, at… — Kurt Angle Copy Share Image
