Performers Quotes · Page 26

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at…

— Denis Waitley

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

Interpreting gives me a chance to do what I do well and have done since I was a kid. At one time,…

— Jack Jason

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

— Jamie Farr

If you're a performer, people tend to be quite positive about you or they have no opinion.

— Eddie Izzard

There are those superstars who refuse to give anything of themselves to the public except what they see on-screen. In movies and…

— George Harrison

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

— Tilda Swinton

My entire life, I've always known that I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know exactly how, where or when.…

— Laz Alonso

Meryl Streep is so brilliant is because she is so human, and aware as a performer.

— Simon Helberg

Every performer should learn a little bit of everything. Most performers today only play the guitar.

— Debbie Reynolds

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

— R. Kelly

I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.

— Mark Russell

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

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer…

— Jason Patric

Go with your gut every single time. It's never, ever wrong. Even if feels like everybody else is telling you that you…

— Tatiana Maslany

Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires…

— Lincoln Kirstein

I wanted to be an actor and I wanted to be a performer. Like Hugh [Grant] said earlier, we might all have…

— Mandy Moore

My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known…

— R. Kelly

When managers overdo micromanaging of others, they probably hired the wrong people or failed to give them a clear idea of what…

— Philip Kotler

I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.

— Mick Ronson

The audience loves to figure things out. They love it when a performer leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them, and…

— Keegan-Michael Key

Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to…

— Penelope Hobhouse

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

— Russell Brand

Sarah [Silverman] writes her own jokes. She doesn't just go through her life and talk about everything. She sits down and crafts…

— Mindy Kaling