#performer

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#any #awful thing #become #business #chance

In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against. ↗

— Frank Oz

#order #performer #play #someone #star

My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obviously busy in the box. But I'm told that children of television performers grow up thinking that all mommies or daddies work on TV and that it's no big deal. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#big #big deal #book #box #busy

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#comedians #cooper #endearing #getting #like

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#earnings #family #family members #half #members

When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way. ↗

— Ivan Reitman

#draft #final #final draft #harold #murray

I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer. ↗

— Mick Ronson

#i #more #never #performer #really

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you. ↗

— Linda Ronstadt

#become #constant #constant fear #fear #performer

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#best #bring #different #live #makes

I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform. ↗

— Sting

#because #fit #help #i #i always