Call Quote by Tanya Fischer

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

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

If I want to call somebody's name out, I want to make sure they've done wrong.

— Sonny Perdue

Over the years, I think, people - actors, writers, whatever - lose their frame of reference. Their frame of reference is based on somebody…

— Michael Keaton

Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.

— Mick Jagger

Listening to your own sets and listening to the audience as you perform. It's a conversation of sorts. There is an exchange.

— Ted Alexandro

When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other,…

— Al Pacino

It's not the name they call you, it's the name you answer to.

— Ralph Abernathy

On the stage, you enter into a bond with the audience, and you can sense they are moved by what you're doing. It's a…

— Everett McGill

I never used to get calls from artists or labels, but once you have a top 20 hit, you start getting them.

— Ludwig Goransson

Ideally the performer has a special function. Which is to bring the listener to the edge of that experience and to open the doors…

— Julian Bream

As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as…

— Marc Maron