#performer

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved. ↗

— Tom Waits

#george #george burns #i #loved #particularly

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#child #child actor #i #never #performer

Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#everyone #goals #individual #making #musicians

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#charted #crushing #frequently #just #life

I think a performer should do his work and then shut up. ↗

— Richard Widmark

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I'm not a natural born performer. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

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The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#allow #audience #form #four #happen

There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#combine #commissioned #composer #composers #creator

All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform. ↗

— David Hasselhoff

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You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#air #body #circus #guy #head