Performer Quotes

Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with.

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good.

I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer.

No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

I'm a performer. We don't retire.

I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.