Performer Quotes
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As a musician or a performer, you're meant to know what you're about, but it's ridiculous that someone 14 would have any idea of what they're about.
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It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.
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I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."
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I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.
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Honestly, I'm a shallow performer. I just go with the text and feel my way around it. There's not a whole lot of shaping.
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You have to be willing to be a live performer, if you want to make money as an independent.
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No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.
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I worked really hard in college, and I came out a completely different person and performer than when I went in. I did the work, and I found a craft.
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If I feel really authentically in my body, then everything seems to click. But, sometimes I can only get into that, if the atmosphere is already conducive to that with the sound and all that stuff. There are moments where, as a performer, you're on stage and you feel like you're exactly where you're meant to be in the universe. It's a rare and beautiful thing when it happens.
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There's certainly no doubt that commercialism has entered classical music to such a degree that almost no one seems to care anymore about the physical and mental health of the performer.
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I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.
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I think the actor or performer should be - to touch that truth inside of a person. Touch that reality so much that they become a part of what you're going and you can take them anywhere you want to.
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I think it is - the biggest plus the performer can have is to be a little unique.
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I feel like my consignment and fear from people pushed me to become a performer.
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When I was three, I lived in Florida, and my mom took me to see the touring production of 'Cats.' And I was, like, absolutely silent - which for a 3-year-old never happens - and I turned to her and said, 'I need to do this.' That's when I started my performer journey.
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I've blown myself up as a revolutionary and conscious artist. As a philanthropist and a performer.
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It's the most unrealistic thing you can do to shoot a close-up, and it's the most unrealistic place you can be as a performer. And yet actors grouse about having to do visual effect shots, but they love doing close-ups.
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One thing that's important for a performer to understand is the difference between art and entertainment.
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I bring to the music industry something that isn't over-complicated. What you see is what you get. But, I feel every performer has something unique to offer.
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If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.
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I don't ever want to think my time is up as a performer. I have been afforded the opportunity to sell 150 million albums, to travel to places I never thought I would go. I'm going to keep on performing. I hope it never ends.
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It would be awesome to know how to sing and be some sort of performer; to feed off other's people's energy is intense. The feeling they must feel would be cool. Too bad I can't sing.
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The crowd is a performer. En masse, a crowd has its own personality, its own character. And there are going to be nights when the crowd delivers a great performance. And there are going to be nights when the crowd bombs.
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But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.
