Best Performers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Liked" was the kiss of death. "Loved" or "hated" interested him. At least the performer had aroused emotion.”

Writing Emotion Comedy Humour Performers Brooklyn Nyc

Source: Enter Talking

“Most people don’t understand performers are really sheltered and protected so much sometimes that they don’t get a chance to live their lives.”

Life Fame Performers Protected Celebrity Sheltered

Author:Diana Ross

“Even the world’s greatest actor cannot fake an erection.”

“Leaders with high esteem are high performers.”

Leadership Leader Self Esteem Food For Thought Israelmore Ayivor Personal Development Esteem Leaders Performers Low Self Esteem Self Image Achievers High Self Esteem Perform Good Self Esteem

Book:Leaders' Ladder

Source: Leaders' Ladder

“It is often asked why the greatest performers are so timid in private. Confident people get attention naturally. Shy people must do something extraordinary or outrageous to have similar recognition.”

Actors Confidence Singers Performing Shy Performers Shyness Confident Timidity Shy People

Author:Stewart Stafford

“For Idina Menzel and for Cynthia Erivo and for all the Elphabas, past and to come”

Roles Actresses Wicked Performers Dedication Elphaba

Book:Elphie: A Wicked Childhood

Source: Elphie: A Wicked Childhood

“Performers try harder.”

Performances Performing Performers Artists

Book:How Music Works

Source: How Music Works

“I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation rather than interaction.”

Writing Creation Performing Writer Performers Interaction Introspective Interacting Performer

Author:Oliver

“Great acting is as much about the choices a performer makes as it is about their ability.”

Actors Acting Performers Actor Performance Art Actor Quotes Performer Acting Differently

Author:Stewart Stafford

“Laughing made me feel safe. I was not going to be enveloped by the seediness that coated this world like dust.”

Writing Comedy Humour Performers Brooklyn Nyc

Book:Enter Talking

Source: Enter Talking

“The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it.”

Writing Comedy Humour Performers Brooklyn Nyc

Book:Enter Talking

Source: Enter Talking

“I have never learned how to tell somebody something good about myself; that should be a secret they must find out .”

Writing Comedy Humour Performers Brooklyn Nyc

Book:Enter Talking

Source: Enter Talking

“Everything comes out of smoke and mist and nothingness, a mystical happening…”

Writing Comedy Humour Performers Brooklyn Nyc

Book:Enter Talking

Source: Enter Talking

“Just like competence and performance, good performers are not necessarily the best of leaders.”

Leadership Leadership Quotes Performers Competence Performance Witty Quotes Intelligence Quotes Don Santo Quotes

Author:Don Santo

“I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better that way, he is deluding himself.”

Stage Drug Responsible Delusion Performers Marijuana Drugs Drug Use Performer Deluding Oneself Anti Drug

Author:Oliver

“The first thing I look for, in addition to a performer's range, is a performer's look in comparison to the character. That is very important to me as a casting director. ("The Making of Dual Mania: Filmmaking Chicago Style," 2018)”

Quotes Performers Cat Ellington The Making Of Dual Mania Casting Director

Book:The Making of Dual Mania: Filmmaking Chicago Style

Source: The Making of Dual Mania: Filmmaking Chicago Style

“One forgets that part of one's performance is one's history—or sometimes the lack of it. You're playing against what an audience knows, what they expect. This seems to be true of all performers; there's baggage that gets carried into the venue that we can't see.”

Audience Expectations Performing Performers Performance

Book:How Music Works

Source: How Music Works

“…but I think comedy is more aggressive than that. It is a medium for revenge. We can deflate and punish the pomposity and the rejection which hurt us. Comedy is power.”

Writing Comedy Humour Performers Brooklyn Nyc

Book:Enter Talking

Source: Enter Talking

“I had a blind date with a dentist — and he told me to come back in six months.”

Writing Comedy Humour Performers Brooklyn Nyc

Book:Enter Talking

Source: Enter Talking

“Maybe that is why in my comedy I try and puncture the hypocrisy all around us, why it is almost a crusade with me to strip life down to what really is true.”

Writing Comedy Humour Performers Brooklyn Nyc

Book:Enter Talking

Source: Enter Talking

“When you begin to losing your audience, do not get loud; get quiet, make them find you and come back to you.”

Writing Comedy Humour Performers Brooklyn Nyc

Book:Enter Talking

Source: Enter Talking

“I said, "Is there!" I told him there is a Mafia school where they teach them math — if Johnny has ten fingers and they cut off two, how many does he have left?”

Writing Comedy Humour Performers Brooklyn Nyc

Book:Enter Talking

Source: Enter Talking

“People say it is not the key to happiness, but I have always figured if you have enough money you can have a key made.”

Writing Comedy Humour Performers Brooklyn Nyc

Book:Enter Talking

Source: Enter Talking

“Strive hard to be among the top performers. To do this, create a standard. Go higher than this standard. Set another higher standard; surpass it and repeat the process.”

Passion Process Higher Strive Food For Thought Israelmore Ayivor Personal Development Performers High Standard Record Perform Surpass Record Breaking Break The Record

Book:101 Keys To Everyday Passion

Source: 101 Keys To Everyday Passion

“…you either do or do not have a comedy mind, whatever that is, maybe a heightened sense of the ridiculous and the absurdity of life…We are all crazy and crazed.”

Writing Comedy Humour Performers Brooklyn Stand Up Nyc

Book:Enter Talking

Source: Enter Talking

“It gathers emotionally inside you, in a strange way a by-product of struggle, of a willingness to do anything, try anything, expose yourself to anything — staying in motion because sooner or later those ripples will cause change.”

Writing Comedy Humour Performers Brooklyn Nyc

Book:Enter Talking

Source: Enter Talking

“Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe.”

Writing Comedy Humour Performers Brooklyn Nyc

Book:Enter Talking

Source: Enter Talking

“I am driven. Being driven is my energy source. It is my fun.…I believe that where there is action, there is movement, and those ripples will eventually produce something positive.”

Writing Comedy Humour Performers Brooklyn Nyc

Book:Enter Talking

Source: Enter Talking

“The revelation that personal truth can be the foundation of comedy, that outrageousness can be cleansing and healthy…”

Writing Comedy Humour Performers Brooklyn Nyc

Book:Enter Talking

Source: Enter Talking

“Not everyone who plays knows the rules and neither the One who watches the game is a novice, Grow Up!””

Performers Expertise Maturity Quotes Players Audience Quotes

Author:Ramana Pemmaraju

“There is what is good, and what is planned. Performers focus on the good while achievers on the planned.”

Performers Achievers

Author:Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard to identify which things are the things that help you be good, and which are the things that hinder you.”

Feels Hard Helping Given Be Good Factors Performers How You Feel Hinder

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.”

Stage Who I Am Performers

Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.”

Knows Should Believe I Believe Sound Know How Stage Vices Studios Performers Vice Versa

Author:Haley Reinhart

“Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone's perception of the band.”

Way Important Play Moments Shows Light Walks Stage Band Perception Red Blow Spots Performers Crucial Glowing Tempo Flashlights Important Moments

Book:Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone

Source: Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone

“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, very low-key.”

Knows Eye Behinds Know How Keys Personality Scene Lows Performers Behind The Scenes Public Eye Discreet Low Key

Author:Leon Redbone

“Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.”

Care Half Members Performers Earning Family Members

Author:Martha Reeves

“One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.”

Giving Trying Actors Interesting Directors Performers Observers Small Things Really Interesting

Author:Janet Suzman

“I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.”

People Want Performers

Author:Jenny Slate

“Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.”

Suffering Song Mercy Performers

Author:Jo Stafford

“The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.”

Roles Audience Century Developing Performers 21st Century Orchestra

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.”

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Author:Roselyn Sanchez

“When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.”

Years Firsts Choices Doors New York Conscious Theater Musical Performers Pigeons Musical Theater

Author:Tamara Tunie

“To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.”

Feels Paper Performers

Author:Rod Taylor

“For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.”

Knows Writing Trying Heart Real Character Relate Performers Being Real

Author:Uma Thurman

“I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.”

People Thinking Knows Care Night Challenges Unique Get Up Performers Every Night

Author:Kate Voegele

“I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?”

People Knows Men Real Stuff Performers Intensity Real You

Author:Alan Vega

“Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.”

Ability Determination Missions Manage Performers Fulfilling

Author:Charles Garfield

“The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.”

Thinking Facts Differences Excellence Performers

Author:Charles Garfield

“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.”

Thinking Want Mind Eye Action Results Powerful Behavior Performers

Author:Charles Garfield

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