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I think on a bucket list for a performer is definitely doing a stage show, whether it's in Vegas or on Broadway or whatever.
Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.
I wanted to try everything. I learnt a lot from playback singing. But at heart, I'm a pop rock singer; I'm a stage performer.
The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.
You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!
My whole thing as a performer is to affect people, whether I make you cry or I make you laugh. I would love to make you think.
I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.
I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.
Behind every great athlete is a masterful coach that inspires the athlete to evolve into the strongest performer they can become.
You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.
When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.
It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.
The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it's not easy for me.
I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
I just love seeing my audience live, and I also love to see my peers perform because it inspires me to be a better performer as well.
When I was a kid and went to shows, my favorites were Live Events. You really see a performer's personality on Live Events than on TV.
Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.
Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
The transition from fan to performer to recording artist, for me, was like learning how to dive... and each board got higher and higher.
The high point for me in my career was when Sinatra called me his favourite performer in the Fifties. And I've been sold out ever since.
Radha Krishna Sir, the director of 'Jil,' had seen 'Madras Cafe' and liked my acting in it. He wanted a performer and so got me on board.
I love Rihanna's style. It's a good mix of streetwear and show wear, and I love her music, too. She's an incredible singer and performer.
My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.
I owe a lot to Rosshan, who literally plucked me from obscurity as a keyboard performer and handed me the background score of 'Notebook.'
If you're performing music that is not who you are or where you're at, it is painful. It's painful for the performer and for the audience.
I miss my hair, but I feel like going out there with some fake braids wouldn't be right. I want to be the most genuine performer I can be.
I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off.
But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.
I always call myself the luckiest actor in the world because I made a living solely as a performer from the time I left home at 17 years old.
I think that those moments before a performer plays are the moments when the potential for something to be created may - or may not - arrive.
I want my audience to be my friends - that is when they will get the best comedy. If they see me as a performer, they won't get the best show.
When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.
I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.
First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.
Will Ferrell in 'Talladega Nights.' He's a very generous performer. He's kind of just one of the guys, but his name happens to be above the title.
I think I spent most of my childhood, and my early years as a performer, in student mode. And I think that's OK - I mean, it led me to where I am.
Everything you do is about creating an experience in the viewer's head. If you're rude or irritating as a performer, then your magic is irritating.
I'm the only person in wrestling that realizes I'm too old to do this anymore, and that's why I'm not a performer and I'm not going to be on 'ROH.'
I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.
I think The Undertaker is, much like Brock Lesnar, a once-in-a-lifetime wrestler, a once-in-a-lifetime athlete, and a once-in-a-lifetime performer.
I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.
I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.
My thing has always been preparation. When I was a performer on the roster as one of the guys on a weekly, full-time schedule, I was always prepared.
Superwoman is more of a performer, which Lilly isn't. Having said that, I guess both of them are completely over the top, dramatic and full of energy.
The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately.
You're not going to find a more committed performer than Sandra Oh - to every single word, action, history that informs the future. Every little thing.