Approach Quote by Brian Ferneyhough

The idea of calling out a performer for being performative is mind-numbingly redundant as an exercise. Performing is a performer's job.

— Matty Healy

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

— Jack Bowman

One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk; you're out there performing and being looked…

— Amanda Palmer

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

— Kenneth Ehrlich

I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.

— Richard Widmark

A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the…

— Erving Goffman

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

— Clive James

I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have…

— Vito Acconci

Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything else. Writing…

— Alistair Beaton

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

— Cate Blanchett

I think the actual art of expressing yourself is a very important part of being human. And an important part of being a performer…

— Stephen Hough

I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?

— Pauly Shore