The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast.… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
Tonight, I would like to pay tribute to the greatest entertainer of all time, Mr. Elvis Presley. Elvis was Las Vegas. And… — Celine Dion Copy Share Image
The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
My parents were working performers, so obviously I saw that there wasn't a lot of fairy tale going on there. It was… — Megan Follows Copy Share Image
Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they… — Mac Davis Copy Share Image
As an actress, I think it’s important to look back and realize that we aren’t always quite as original as we think… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
The music's rehearsed a lot. All people think about is, they think, in rock 'n' roll, they get the music off right… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
My mom made me go to a Britney Spears concert when I was young. And I was like, 'No, I don't want… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
When I decided to pursue a career as a Muppet Performer when I was in college, it was my hope to be… — Stephanie D'Abruzzo Copy Share Image
What you're hoping for about the concert is an overall collective experience that everyone has and that you share with them and… — Joel Plaskett Copy Share Image
At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again,… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
Patrick thought we should try to put an audience in front of one of the workshops, basically in front of the class… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I think that we have a unique opportunity as performers and artists to be kind of the town criers and also to… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique,… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
All the things that are negative in me as a person - the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain - are… — Elizabeth Ashley Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to be a performer, and my mother started taking me to dance classes when I was five.… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life.… — Suzanne Falter-Barns Copy Share Image
I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing,… — Khandi Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn't hurt to celebrate the piano and… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a… — Ben Bagdikian Copy Share Image
I feel like people used to leave their homes and go to their local theatre, and they used to watch ballet dancers… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
There are two types of people, two types of performers: Performers who know how to keep a show going literally when the… — El-P 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
Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA. His dominance, power, demeanor and the rivalry with… — Red Auerbach Copy Share Image
The process of putting intangible thoughts into an imperfect system of notation - which is difficult enough, depending on your ideas -… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
I don't like when performers rag on their ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend in absentia. If they're not there, it just feels rude... I'm… — David Rees Copy Share Image
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
My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience… — Cate Blanchett 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
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 Copy Share Image
