#performer

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it. ↗

— John Malkovich

#glass #good #human #human life #i

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

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers. ↗

— Marc Maron

#bred #club #comedy #comedy club #comics

No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#live #movie #performer #theatrical

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face. ↗

— Liza Minelli

#business #cents #dollar #element #every

You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#brilliant #doing #enjoy #great #hand

Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before. ↗

— Wayne Newton

#both #doing #done #ever #grew

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#anyone #art #artistic #busy #fashion

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior? ↗

— Camille Paglia

#compete #dies #does #her #junior