#perform

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance? ↗

— Colin Firth

#afterwards #big #case #instinct #me

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty. ↗

— Roberta Flack

#good #honesty #performance #primary #qualities

We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other. ↗

— Grandmaster Flash

#each #fighting #gotta #i #i think

The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#being #best #express #feelings #front

I persist in performing. ↗

— David Tudor

#performing #persist

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

— Christopher Walken

#child #child actor #i #never #performer

Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed. ↗

— Chris Ware

#amount #art #art forms #built #comes

I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#cerebral #creative #creative artist #emotional #i

People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#choose #eat #job #never #people

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#colored #come #ease #got #just