Performers Quotes
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There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.
Tom Conti
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I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.
Mick Ronson
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My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.
Erica Schroeder
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Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.
Ricky Jay
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There's a lot that goes into training, singers to eventually become performers. There's, projection, uh, which in many cases the artist was never concerned about.
Cholly Atkins
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The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined and not wasting time. It's wild. And it's a great thing when you see a performer really able to.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.
Morgan Brittany
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I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.
George Bernard Shaw
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Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do it. They begin with the end in mind.
Stephen Covey
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The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.
Charles Garfield
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The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music speaks through the performance, and the performer and the listener will walk together with the soul of the composer, and with God.
Mstislav Rostropovich
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You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.
Sandra Bernhard
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I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.
David Bowie
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I'm a performer. That's what I do. That and making money - it's the passion and the care factor for the people that support your passion, the people that support you, it's the kind of people that go crazy and love your stuff.
Schoolboy Q
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I find that so often this work can so easily overcome you and knock you out of balance and become all you think about and all you care about and all you feel is important in your life, and it's kind of the opposite. Relationships first and people first and then you can be a great performer.
Erin Davie
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I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.
Cate Blanchett
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'Center Stage' reached people that, as live performers, we would have never had the opportunity to reach.
Sascha Radetsky
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I think Elvis loved his fans - I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious and sensitive to the fact that performers love them.
Minnie Pearl
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As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.
Simon Baker
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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.
Charles Garfield
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My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.
Michael Ian Black
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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
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When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.
Ethel Waters
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I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together.
David Bowie