Quotes About Artistry

I'm not running after glamorous roles, honestly. I'm a performer and want to perform instead of standing like a mannequin wearing a lot of makeup.

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever.

I think that those moments before a performer plays are the moments when the potential for something to be created may - or may not - arrive.

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.

I've always been a performer.

It's important to be out as a performer.

I was always a performer.

It's funny how you can say performing is in the blood, and if I'm considered a performer being an actor, then it's certainly in the blood.

It's hard for a country performer to make a living in a Beatles society.

Very rarely in the life of an actor and a performer do you do something you truly believe in, do you do something you are absolutely proud of.

Costumes are great. That kind of effort tells the audience that the performer has taken the time to be the total package.

All you have to offer as a performer is yourself.

I grew up in show business, so I always knew I was going to be a dancer or a performer. I knew that was my business.

I grew into who I always wanted to be as a drag entertainer and performer.

You just know that you're a performer and that's that.

I'm a musician, and I feel like musicians owe it to themselves and owe it to music to concern themselves with as much of music as interests them. Even if you decide that you're never going to compose, you will be a better performer if you concern yourself with the craft of composition.

And often, once you've done it five or six times, a performer has to start dredging up emotions from a new place, which is harder to do.

My love of performers is not really different than my love for painters. Everyone's really high-strung and trying to do the best they can.

All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

Conductors are performers.

As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.

It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.