One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom.
I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.
Once I reached my 40s, I thought to myself that if I'm going to play live now, I need to really mean this. I can't go out and be a little bit, for one moment slovenly in my choices as a performer. I mean, these people have paid a lot of money to be here, they've been through the nightmare of getting here, starving themselves waiting for us to get on stage, so I'm going to give them what they came here for.
When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.
Everything's about my personal entertainment. The world is my stage. Keep it up- you're becoming a star performer in the show.
Try not be resentful or jealous of other people's success. Know that your path as a performer is going to be very different than others. Try your best not to compare.
It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.
Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.
I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.
No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.
I'm a live performer and I love playing live.
Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone's perception of the band.
I wouldn't give a performer something I couldn't deliver myself.
Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out.
What I love most about playing in front of people has something to do with a certain kind of energy exchange. The attention and appreciation of my audience feeds back into my playing. It really seems as if there is a true and equal give and take between performer and listener, making me aware of how much I depend on my audience. And since the audience is different every night, the music being played will differ too. Every space I performed in has its own magic and spirit.
I'm a performer. That's what I do. That and making money - it's the passion and the care factor for the people that support your passion, the people that support you, it's the kind of people that go crazy and love your stuff.
I learned a lot about my audience and about myself as a performer, what I like to do live.
At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.
I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.
I've been a performer for a long time and I know when people are laughing from their guts, from the inside, and when their tuxedos are laughing.