#exhibitionist

...simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.... A moderately gifted person has to keep his or her gifts all bottled up until, in a manner of speaking, he or she gets drunk at a wedding and tap-dances on the coffee table like Fred Astaire or Ginger Rogers. We have a name for him or her. We call him or her an "exhibitionist." How do we reward such an exhibitionist? We say to him or her the next morning, "Wow! Were you ever drunk last night! ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#giftedness #mediocrity #communication

I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#attention #audience #because #book #capture

When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#any #audience #clothes #depends #enjoy

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#alone #anywhere #behind #come #else

In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#been #body #comfortable #creature #dog

I've done nudity. I'm an exhibitionist. It doesn't matter. ↗

— John Turturro

#exhibitionist #i #matter #nudity

I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#exhibitionist #i #just #me #obviously

I'm not an exhibitionist. But, honestly, for my art I'll do anything almost. I'll go there. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#anything #art #exhibitionist #go #honestly

I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#i #kid

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#am #because #dark #disappear #exhibitionist