Performers Quotes · Page 12

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

— Laurence Olivier

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

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

— Cate Blanchett

I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.

— Penn Jillette

I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people…

— Kathleen Hanna

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

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

— Donald Fagen

When somebody is doing something really funny, in real life and as a performer, my instinct is to join them.

— Jake M. Johnson

Performers may play in the studio, but they need to go out and tour every once in a while to keep their…

— John Kao

The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope…

— Evelyn Glennie

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

That is what lower performers do; they make others wrong for doing what is necessary in order to make themselves feel okay…

— Grant Cardone

I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with…

— Maria Bamford

Being an elite performer on the playing field of life is not about being perfect. Rather, it is about cultivating a mental…

— Robin Sharma

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

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

Typical pay increases are not enough to motivate employees, but they are enough to irritate them. … Even when companies create seemingly…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James…

— Alex Gibney

I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.

— Criss Angel

Try not be resentful or jealous of other people's success. Know that your path as a performer is going to be very…

— Erica Schroeder

When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.

— Paul Lansky

My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.

— Erica Schroeder

Broadway is not just the song and the shows; it's the individual performers and the community.

— Darren Criss

Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.

— Harry Houdini

I'm not a performer. If they're looking for entertainer-in-chief, I'm probably not the guy.

— Jeb Bush

If you look at the world-class performers at the top of the game, their numbers are just exceptional and that is the…

— Brendan Rodgers

Most writers or performers walk around with the notion in their head that - a paranoid worry that maybe people don't like…

— Charlie Brooker

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

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

— Anna Faris

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out…

— Fred Astaire

Having the presence of mind to react to any situation onstage is what makes the best performers keep their spontaneity intact.

— Marni Nixon

The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I…

— Manu Bennett

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

— Nick Cave

I'm used to getting reviews. I try not to read much because you'll always focus on the bad ones and not remember…

— Sam Trammell

Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

— Jack Welch

Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.

— John Eliot

All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage

— Neil Peart

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

— Anonymous

TWINS by Nefesch is a fantastic piece of truly impromptu mentalism which will only be performed by fearless performers. Highly recommended!

— Keith Barry

I've said it before, that I think if we can have any woman from any other background to come into the WWE,…

— Alexa Bliss