#perform

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons. ↗

— Patti Smith

#around #books #children #five #four

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#celebration #contain #even #fact #illusion

I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#complex #demands #figure #film #films

I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#appealed #criminal #fun #i #just

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#doll #dutch #friend #i #mother

I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform. ↗

— Sting

#because #fit #help #i #i always

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer. ↗

— Jan Hammer

#jazz singer #mother #performs #she #singer

Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that. ↗

— Mats Sundin

#come and go #control #friends #go #good

Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release. ↗

— James Taylor

#ahead #any #away #because #before

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer. ↗

— Rod Taylor

#paper #performer #put #same #see