Performer Quotes

313 quotes by 275 authors

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer. — Rod Taylor
For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character.… — Uma Thurman
I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night,… — Kate Voegele
I think Madonna is a wonderful performer. — Patti LuPone
A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot. — Patti LuPone
What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new… — Jack McBrayer
I think a performer should do his work and then shut up. — Richard Widmark
Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of… — Mel Torme
It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer. — John Hurt
Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer. — Kirk Douglas
Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended. — Sandra Bartky
If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note.… — Evander Holyfield
You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors! — Terry Eagleton
The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you. — Linda Ronstadt
I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person. — Mark Russell
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. — Robert Fitzgerald
My entire life, I've always known that I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know exactly how, where or when. I never learned… — Laz Alonso
The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as… — Manu Bennett
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad… — Carla Bley
As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer. — Simon Baker

Who Wrote These Performer Quotes

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