Quotes About Performer

I've blown myself up as a revolutionary and conscious artist. As a philanthropist and a performer.

A cat is incredibly physical, and as a performer, I'm physical. If I feel emotions, they move through my body in a way that is sensual. I'm not necessarily in control of that.

Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.

Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.

Paul Sinha is a very good piano player and singer.

There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces.

I love listening to things like those wonderful piano pieces of Stockhausen. It's just not my thing as a composer or performer, and thank goodness we're not obliged to be Modernist any more.

I think a lot of the fans want to see the high-flying action and be entertained. I don't think there is a better division out there than the cruiserweights to do that. It could be a pigeonhole for some, but at the end of the day, it's about whatever makes you happy as a performer.

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.

Being a performer and recording artist and playing 'World of Warcraft' - that's a pretty time-intensive combination.

It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.

As an actor, I probably fall into more of the sidekick/best friend/doctor/lawyer category.

I do think I'm a character actor.

I was born a character actor.

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

I'm just a character actor.

I am an entertainer. Cinema is entertainment. It is nothing more than that.

Neil Patrick Harris is a superman of entertainment.

I even sang once at the opening of a supermarket. You name it, I've done it.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

I never wanted to be a performer. I suppose I was precocious, really.

The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work.

The thing that keeps me being a performer is my interest in society's obsession with identity, because I'm not sure that I really believe identity exists.

I didn't spend my childhood trying to be a performer; it was a big surprise to me that this was what I was doing. But it has always felt quite natural to me. I wasn't taught to do what I do; I found out bit by bit.