#perform

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved. ↗

— Tom Waits

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

— Christopher Walken

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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

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The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

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The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

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If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

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If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. ↗

— Mae West

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Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization. ↗

— Edmund White

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