#performer

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

If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!' ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#always #chances #could #enjoy #exaggerate

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#am #assistants #ever #far #his

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#extent #however #injures #open #performer

I'm not like a performer type. ↗

— Dave Attell

#like #performer #type

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around. ↗

— Mac Davis

#around #close #elvis #elvis presley #even

I wasn't really a performer by temperament. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#performer #really #temperament

I think Madonna is a wonderful performer. ↗

— Patti LuPone

#i think #madonna #performer #think #wonderful

As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible. ↗

— Marc Maron

#being used #commercial #endorsements #keep #many

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along. ↗

— Marc Maron

#agree #along #because #business #businesses