Quotes About Performance

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

A performer, that's what I am, only I can perform in different areas.

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.

Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any sort of a performance liberty, you're making a compositional choice. I don't know a serious performer who hasn't made compositional decisions, who hasn't engaged in the art of composition.

The critics noticed me as a performer only with 'Dor.'

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.

We have done 'Talvar' in three different parts, recreating three different scenarios. And so, it was very interesting for me as a performer to be a part of this film.

We never forget we're all in this together. But Gwen's an incredible performer and she deserves all the attention she gets.

I've always been an anxious performer. I've never liked performing.

I believe if you are a good performer, then nothing can stop you.

I'm one of the most popular cabaret performers, and I don't sing a note. And nobody expects me to sing.

I love to work with performers that are very different to me.

I'm one of those performers who has done just about everything except juggle, and I'm working on that.

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

I've seen some beyond-amazing performers do karaoke who should be on stage somewhere, and I've seen people who you rather didn't enter the bar. That's the beautiful thing about it; it's for everybody.

I always go in with the feeling that I'm gonna have a good time in what I'm doing. I entertain myself when I perform. If I do that, then I can see the other performers enjoying my character.

Part of the Hong Kong style is the fact that a lot of the performers can perform the moves, and we don't over-rehearse this stuff.

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.

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

Conductors are performers.

Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.

All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

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.