#former

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

If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!' ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#always #chances #could #enjoy #exaggerate

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. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#am #assistants #ever #far #his

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#extent #however #injures #open #performer

I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now. ↗

— John Hughes

#brothers #change #clothes #defined #defines

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer. ↗

— Mark V. Hurd

#easier #great #i #i can #make

I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#i #i think #know #lot #onstage

Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks. ↗

— Danny Bonaduce

#child #former #great #star #sucks

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#best #best time #career #experience #former

I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times. ↗

— David Ginola

#back #bringing #classic #fallen #former