The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly.… — Tony Iommi Copy Share Image
Most performers reinvent themselves. Madonna, Michael Jackson, P. Diddy. They reinvent themselves into different kinds of images. Elvis Presley was always himself,… — Pat Boone 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
I was spending three days literally just kibitzing with Jack Nicholson at a table! It was heaven! And talk about a normal… — Peter Jacobson Copy Share Image
People don't walk around thinking of themselves as bad people. You're part of the environment that you grow up in, and there… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
I think that watching artists, soulful artists, they get into it. It's always the way I perform, so when I'm on stage… — Justin Nozuka Copy Share Image
You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Playing music well is difficult, yet the world has an abundance of fine performers. Explaining a little about music is easier, yet… — Justin Davidson Copy Share Image
Talking about my personal life onstage, I've realized I'm not one of those comics who can do that. I can allude to… — David Rees Copy Share Image
I never talk about what I'm writing about currently, never. It's private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are… — Janet Suzman Copy Share Image
I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. But I'm not in a league with Lenny… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer. — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what… — Thia Megia Copy Share Image
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be. — Lyle Lovett Copy Share Image
I don't think you necessarily have to be the most perfected performer, in order to express your feelings. It's really those feelings… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in… — Robert Stack Copy Share Image
[Gord] Downie has become more animated than the early days, but he's still the same charismatic performer. And as a whole, that… — Sarah Harmer Copy Share Image
Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image