Able Quote by Todd Haynes

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's…

— Dick Cavett

Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they…

— John Eliot

My experience for myself as a performer is not one of high expectations.

— Ruby Dee

Many performers try to sustain a high point in their careers by keeping themselves around those who are overanxious to tell them how good…

— Leo Sayer

I'm always very interested in playing in front of different kinds of audiences. It always affects the way you play.

— James Dean Bradfield

As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives,…

— 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 have always had a performers instinct since I was a child.

— Shriya Pilgaonkar

I see someone like John Williams, the classical player, and the amount of discipline and the natural ability that man has is so frightening.…

— Ritchie Blackmore

The most important thing for any performer is to know your own weaknesses. It's much more important to know what you can't do than…

— Richard Bonynge

You know, a lot of people have an instinct to downplay the fact that they are performing and be, like, 'There is no theatre…

— Ezra Furman

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

— Winston Churchill