A Quote by Paula Pell

I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.

Paula Pell

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Actor Before Performer Primarily Written

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Paula Pell
American - Writer

The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed.

Albert Murray

I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there.

Robert Carlyle

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

Denis Lavant

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

Van Morrison

I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while.

Steve Carell

I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent to performer.

Vito Acconci

I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.

Billy Bob Thornton

A stage show's popularity depends on its organisers and the public, but primarily on the performer.

Shefali Zariwala

I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career, except for when I've worked with the Coen brothers.

Billy Bob Thornton

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

Jack Kirby

In a way, the songs are written to be performed. I put them on records, but I'm always thinking about how an audience would react to it. I realized at age 7 that I wanted to be a performer, and I used to do that, and occasionally I'll get an acting job. I don't really make much of a living as an actor, but it's fun to do it when I get a job.

Loudon Wainwright III

I'm an improvisational actor. I like to do my own thing. But once in a while, I think you should have the self-restraint to let someone else dictate the story.

Fawad Khan

Before one is successful that is before any one is ready to pay money for anything you do then you are certain that every word you have written is an important word to have written and that any word you have written is as important as any other word and you keep everything you have written with great care.

Gertrude Stein

If I know a guy who's a really good improvisational actor, I'd be foolish not to let him because he'll come up with goodies and all kinds of little freebies that you get.

Rob Reiner

Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.