Performer Quotes

313 Performer quotes by 275 unique authors

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part… — Denis Waitley
I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work. — Andy Goldsworthy
To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing. — Elizabeth Bibesco
The mind of the performer is a very strange thing. — James Galway
I've been, I think, able to stay grounded in such a crazy business, and I attribute that a lot to my family, and especially to… — Debbie Gibson
I have discovered that I cannot enhance anybody's performance without getting them not only to live with the butterflies that come with high-pressure jobs but… — John Eliot
Performance shots are a waste of time, they look like everyone else's. If you want to shoot a performer, then grab them, own them, you… — Unknown Author
Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows… — Marc Maron
You can't ask a guy like me why [I performed]. I really wanted to fly through the air. I was a daredevil, a performer. I… — Evel Knievel
Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer. — Ricky Jay
The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of the performer and… — David Lanz
It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer. — Tilda Swinton
Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before. — Wayne Newton
I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes. — Sandra Bernhard
I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I… — Michael Richards
Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives. — Buck Rodgers
No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star image no to… — Unknown Author
A road-wise folkie with a bluesy soul reminiscent of early Michelle Shocked, Melissa Crabtree is an original storyteller and performer not to be missed. — Catie Curtis
I'm a live performer and I love playing live. — Tim Finn
I’m really only responsible to make sure that one person is clapping at the end of my life. Because I feel like as a performer,… — Jon Foreman
Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes… — Thia Megia
For me the voice is the most important, but making your singing believable makes a great performer. — Hollie Cavanagh
I want TNA to grow as a company, it’s better for me as a performer and me as a businessman. But how can they grow… — Chris Jericho
What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not.… — Edith Head
Go with your gut every single time. It's never, ever wrong. Even if feels like everybody else is telling you that you need to do… — Tatiana Maslany

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