Able Quote by Tilda Swinton

I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye,…

— Leon Redbone

I've always been a performer. I love doing impressions of people and being the clown.

— Emma Rigby

For me, it's all about having the performers feel confident in their movements and surroundings. And then I'll figure out how to photograph it…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I learned a lot about my audience and about myself as a performer, what I like to do live.

— Miranda Lambert

My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you…

— Yo-Yo Ma

Being a performer, I learned how to go into professional mode, but I still have moments when I have to look in a mirror,…

— Judi Love

I always knew that if I was ever going to perform something that I wrote in front of an audience, I was going to…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I just want the audience to see that the performances are a real representation of myself.

— Taeyang

You do something, like, something like 'Psych' for long enough, it's tough to shake up people's preconceptions of who you are as a performer.

— James Roday

It's great to watch someone get the most out of what they can do, whether they're a beautiful performer or just a really gritty…

— John Turturro

When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like.

— Nick Cave