Quotes About Performers

You need actors and performers, but there has to be content in a film.

Most performers are used to the highs and the lows. If you can let a low stop you, that would be a sad commentary.

One of the great things about shooting in Los Angeles is you have access to all these great performers. We love working with ensembles, and that process of getting a great group of people together and setting them in motion.

We performers sacrifice so much for your entertainment.

I can't think of a better bonding experience than to be able to sit on stage and to watch your fellow performers perform on stage every night.

There's a bit of hazing when it comes to the youth performers and a disbelief that you're capable of handling dramatic or comedic material on an adult level.

I learned a lot from Elvis. He never took his image seriously. So many performers today put their image before themselves. It can ruin them. Like Elvis, I never took my image seriously.

Broadway performers are the best-trained people on the planet.

I was a huge fan of Rick Rude and Arn Anderson. There's many guys, many performers in the past who turned me into the sports entertainer I am today.

It's hard for performers to grow old gracefully, but I'm trying.

What I love about improv so much is that we are all discovering it at roughly the same time. The performers are maybe, what, a half second ahead of the audience? There's very little lag time. I think of a thing, I say it, then the audience is laughing and it all happened in a second.

The only thing that I can contribute as director is to work with the performers in a way that brings out the drama.

Well, being from Mississippi, the church house is kind of the common denominator. It was for me growing up. Like so many public performers, that was the first place I was ever invited to sing.

I'm just grateful to have a job. There are an awful lot of talented performers out there who are out of work.

That's one of the cool things I love about television, is it's able to evolve and able to adapt and the actors and the performers are actually a more integral part of the process. So they're informing not just the characters, but the story.

We're not performers, we're not models - it would not be enjoyable for humanity to see our features, but the robots are exciting to people.

I would not correct dancers if I was performing, because I don't believe in performers correcting other performers.

I still should want to watch the movie and enjoy it. Certain actors can play grotesque bad guys, yet they still have a connection to the audience. We still enjoy them as performers. They do cruel deeds, they're monsters, but we enjoy their monsters because when they're on screen we known something exciting will happen.

The final question will be: is the soundscape of the world an indeterminate composition over which we have no control, or are we its composers and performers, responsible for giving it form and beauty?

I was waiting for the world to change. I'm no longer waiting; I'm part of that movement. I think our role as performers and entertainers is so much bigger.

The Walker Brothers, they were a talented pair of people. I thought that Scott had a very fine voice.

The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians.

The entire New York comedy scene has moved to L.A. - it's bled the New York comedy scene dry.

Both my parents are actors.