Quotes About Performers

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.

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

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it - performers as well - and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways.

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.

My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this entertainment world. They just think it's mental. They have no idea what I'm doing in America.

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

I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.

There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.

I so miss musical theater. Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers.

I'm much more interested in lesser-known eccentrics and characters and performers. Like Matthew Buchinger, who was born in Germany in 1674, had no arms or legs and yet did magic, and had 14 kids, and made the most extraordinary calligraphy.

For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.

I love creating characters that are ridiculous and flawed. To me, the most important thing about comedy is the joy it can bring to the performers and the audience alike. I love making people laugh and not over-thinking things. Some of my favorite moments are when I am doing an improv scene with friends, and I can't stop laughing during it.

Film music has a great history of composers and performers.

Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers. I would love to perform at that level. I love the exchange with the audience. I love being able to sing and dance to express your emotions and the community and friendships that are formed when working on a theater piece.

Most people don't think of actors and people like us that are performers and out in the world as introverts, but I like to know I can trust someone first.

I like to know that my actors or my performers are going into it with the same amount of passion that I have for the project. They're as dedicated to achieving as I am.

I loved all the wrestling going on in the ring - I wouldn't be into it as much if I didn't care about that - but I always had an infatuation with the performers and the entertainers.

In Adrenaline Mob there are five guys that are all absolutely insanely energetic performers each of their own right. It's like a five-ring circus on stage!