Quotes About Performer

Writing is the most disembodied art, and reading and writing are largely private and solitary experiences, so music and dance have always enchanted me as arts in which the body of the performer communicates directly to the audience, welding a kind of communion writers rarely experience.

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

I'm your private dancer, a dancer for money, I'll do what you want me to do.

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or during a rehearsal.

Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.

If you're a performer, people tend to be quite positive about you or they have no opinion.

Hamlet is a name: his speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. What then, are they not real? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet.

Making music is like constructing a machine whose function is to dredge up emotions in performer and listener alike.

I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.

Shawn Michaels is quite simply the greatest performer in WWE history.

When I decided to pursue a career as a Muppet Performer when I was in college, it was my hope to be able to play a wide range of Muppet characters in all areas and genres of television and film.

Comedy clubs have brick walls behind the performer. Bricks make you funny. When I'm in front of a fireplace, I'm hilarious.

Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.

Late in November, Lenny took off for his eagerly anticipated job in Chicago. It had been nearly a year since he played the chilly city, and those who hadn't seen him for that period, or even longer, were shocked at the change in his appearance. The once handsome, animated, brilliant performer and commentator was now a fat, bent, shabby-looking street loafer, a horribly dissipated, baggy-eyed, numb-fleshed junkie, with a tragic darkness in his eyes.

Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.

The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.

My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a hairdo.

The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.