One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.
Janet Suzman

Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.
Dan Hicks

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

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

So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.
Mel Torme

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.
Jo Stafford

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

The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.
James Galway

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.
Mark V. Hurd

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
Hedy Lamarr

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.
Michelle Shocked

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
Lester Bangs

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
Nat King Cole

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.
Rod Taylor

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

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
Earle Brown

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
Robert Fitzgerald

When I got lucky with Dean, I ended up with 16 years with one of the truly great performers of all time. He was the greatest performer I'd ever been around, bar none.
Greg Garrison

When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.
Mike Rutherford

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