#performer

I'm usually put off by performers when they get political. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

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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

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

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

— Lawrence Welk

#always #any #attributes #develop #helped

I think a performer should do his work and then shut up. ↗

— Richard Widmark

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When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

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All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform. ↗

— David Hasselhoff

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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