Performers Quotes · Page 16

Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special…

— Twyla Tharp

I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a…

— Rosanne Cash

It's great to watch someone get the most out of what they can do, whether they're a beautiful performer or just a…

— John Turturro

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

— Romola Garai

Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the…

— Penn Jillette

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

— Van Cliburn

I miss my hair, but I feel like going out there with some fake braids wouldn't be right. I want to be…

— Sharon Jones

Ryan [Gosling] has a history with the Mickey Mouse Club. He was a child performer himself. And he took the time to…

— Joel Silver

Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

No matter what, I will always prefer a live performance. Whether it be a play or a musical, or playing music live.…

— Darren Criss

Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself…

— George Carlin

I think that all the talented filmmakers sort of share, I think, a sense of allowing magic to happen; of creating a…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it…

— Allan Kozinn

There are plenty of actors who've caught the singing bug and vice versa, but with musical performers, you're constantly a persona -…

— Freddie Stroma

There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When…

— Beverly Sills

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

The encore is the short piece after the program has finished, where the performer brings out something that the audience doesn't expect.

— Hilary Hahn

Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing…

— Daniel Breaker

Even the prettiest performers and even the most handsome performers, when they get that opportunity, they still need to step up to…

— Chris Gethard

I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.

— Dagmara Dominczyk

There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't…

— Penn Jillette

One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom.

— Meryl Davis

Zimbabwe's stock market was the best performer this decade - but your entire portfolio now buys you 3 eggs

— Kyle Bass

My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.

— Nick Offerman

Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.

— Sandra Bartky

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up…

— Jennifer Weiner

I learned how to sing in front of a lot of people and to hone my skills alongside some of the greatest…

— Carlene Carter

I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage…

— Paloma Faith

My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at…

— Helene Grimaud

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

— Debbie Reynolds

I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm a natural performer,…

— Dan Bejar

I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was…

— Sandra Bernhard

I think, as singers and performers, we are ambassadors of the human experience. I don't want to get bored just talking about…

— Lizz Wright

The true exceptional performer is on super pilot. Every single sense, every fiber of his body is brought together in what he…

— John Eliot

As a live stand-up comedy performer, I have the benefit of choosing real entrance music.

— John Hodgman

Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever…

— Wayne Newton

These are not necessarily our agendas, but we feel a part of what a performer is, and what a performer has to…

— Kenneth Ehrlich

The average performer stops when they face fear. Iconic producer accelerates once they get frightened.

— Robin Sharma

I would like to face everyone on the Impact roster. It is filled with amazing performers, I would be honored to share…

— Tessa Blanchard

We've never been, really, singers or performers. We are a little bit but we are not like Mick Jagger or Keith Richards…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo