I still get excited performing live. When you see the immediate reaction from a crowd, its like being a theater performer, its something you can't get from being a writer or being an ad man. . . its almost ritualistic.
More than an actor, I am a performer. I'm a great believer
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
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.
Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.
Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.
It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.
No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie 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 don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.
Meryl Streep is so brilliant is because she is so human, and aware as a performer.
I was a street performer for two years.
I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.
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've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.
I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you!
I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.
Maybe there is a feeling that women get judged more about how they look and how they present themselves visually as opposed to what they are thinking and feeling. Especially as a female performer that happens a lot, and I think that is regressing even more, which I find really sad.
My whole background was with bands, so I always thought of "fashion" as performative. It took me a long time to bridge the gap between my music and what I was studying in school, [which was] dance and being a performer.
The encore is the short piece after the program has finished, where the performer brings out something that the audience doesn't expect.