Performers Quotes · Page 19

Pushing myself against my own will really, because some of this stuff is hard. I don't consider myself to be a great…

— Cody Johnson

If you get too heavy with the nods and winks, people get a sense that they're excluded from something. If they're in…

— Hugh Jackman

Some people are good at performing in front of people like that, but I'm uncomfortable at it. I think maybe that's the…

— Kristen Stewart

The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of…

— David Lanz

I just turned 40, and I look at so many performers and so many people who are actually always on time and…

— Maxwell

What Mr. Kaufman and his team are after is less a portrait of any one person than one of the ethos of…

— Ben Brantley

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

— Elton John

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

Authority never matches responsibility. That's one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all…

— Tom Peters

I'm honored to be in a position to have young girls or performers look up to me.

— Lea Michele

Patrick thought we should try to put an audience in front of one of the workshops, basically in front of the class…

— Brian Henson

I get star-struck anytime I meet performers that I grew up watching and appreciating. I mean, it's still incredibly surreal to me…

— James Roday

If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals…

— Will Sheff

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would…

— Johnny Cash

Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike…

— John Eliot

I was like, wow, this guy's [Donald Trump ] going to do well. And I remember people laughed at me. People were…

— Trevor Noah

I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.

— Elton John

Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

— Anna Faris

You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or…

— Sandra Bernhard

I find that so often this work can so easily overcome you and knock you out of balance and become all you…

— Erin Davie

A writer is a performer as well. A writer isn't the literary department. That gets tried on but nothing's a script unless…

— William Monahan

Done right, a performance review is one of the best opportunities to encourage and support high performers and constructively improve your middle-…

— Kathryn Minshew

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.

— Charles Garfield

I consider being a performer work. I come from a theater family; I've been an actor all my life. I started acting…

— Torquil Campbell

There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do…

— Janet Jackson