Performer Quotes

313 Performer quotes by 275 unique authors

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
I'm not like a performer type. — Dave Attell
There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating. — Tom Conti
The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do… — Fefe Dobson
I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies. — Dagmara Dominczyk
Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really… — Willem Dafoe
Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a… — Melanie Fiona
People tend to think that because I'm a performer and I don't go to a regular high school that I haven't personally been affected by… — Ariana Grande
My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often… — Colin Firth
I'm a performer. We don't retire. — Robert Goulet
The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and… — Taylor Hanson

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