#former

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#backstage #brutalized #bullies #child #come

It's really a grand old, legendary theatre where the spirits of like Judy Garland and all these great performers have been. The clubs are way more underground. ↗

— Deborah Cox

#clubs #garland #grand #great #judy

My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#goal #great #human #human being #performer

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#because #chaos #dangerous #hysterical #idealism

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two. ↗

— Mel Torme

#arranger #author #career #directions #give

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#against #among #been #before #care

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

I loved Transformers when I was a kid. ↗

— Mike Shinoda

#kid #loved #transformers

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician. ↗

— Patti Smith

#i #know #musician #performer #strong

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car. ↗