Performers Quotes
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As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show.
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I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.
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Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
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It's always been impressive to me when someone can really do what they want onstage. The audience has confidence in the performer and the performer has confidence in the crowd.
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Some writers are more natural public performers than others; personally I find it quite strange giving interviews. But everyone has parts of their job that they like more than others. You can't complain if you get to do what you love doing most of the time, can you?
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My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.
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You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.
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I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.
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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.
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I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.
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As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.
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'Center Stage' reached people that, as live performers, we would have never had the opportunity to reach.
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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.
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When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.
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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!
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I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together.
