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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I once went to La Boca district, where you can watch street performers doing tango, and joined in. But it's very hard to dance in Birkenstocks.
Most writers or performers walk around with the notion in their head that - a paranoid worry that maybe people don't like them.
Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.
It is true I've written songs for other performers; I've worked with Tricky, Tears for Fears, A1, HearSay among others.
If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.
Great performers are preparing and practicing for a winning day while everyone else is still asleep.
There are certain performers that the gay community receives and recognizes with love, and my whole life, I've always responded to those same artists.
I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.
We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it.
I think what actors have to do, what performers have to do to emotionally get to that place and have a camera and have your face 20 feet high on a screen, is such an incredible thing.
What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?
I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.
I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.
High performers obsessively research their dreams from a multitude of sources. To become world-class, you have to know who has already cracked the struggle you face ahead.
I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.
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.
It has been my experience that the greatest performers in the genre of sports-entertainment are usually natural extensions of their own, true personality.
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
One of the reasons why 'Here's The Thing', Alec Baldwin's series of podcasts with 'artists, policymakers and performers', is so good is because he's a big name, so the guests have to deliver.
I loved all the wrestling going on in the ring - I wouldn't be into it as much if I didn't care about that - but I always had an infatuation with the performers and the entertainers.
It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.
Part of the Hong Kong style is the fact that a lot of the performers can perform the moves, and we don't over-rehearse this stuff.
Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.
I can remember in the early 60s that there were a couple of really dynamic women performers at the time - Brenda Lee, there was Connie Francis.
All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another's audience outside the gilded cage
I still consider myself to be introverted, but everyone has a side of themselves that is amplified. Performers have to learn to tap into that, even if it's not natural.
I am used to being on tours with people who are fantastic performers and I respect them and I love their music. But the bottom line is they got the vision for what we are trying to do.
The younger generation of performers really enjoy their success. Its like they know their moment is here right now and probably won't be here in a few years.
City needs creativity to retain the high performers who have lived there for years as well as to attract new, interesting residents.
Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.
I mean, Frank Sinatra is one of the great performers in pop music history. Why shouldn't I be delighted to carry on his tradition?
I think, as singers and performers, we are ambassadors of the human experience. I don't want to get bored just talking about myself.
It's really a grand old, legendary theatre where the spirits of like Judy Garland and all these great performers have been. The clubs are way more underground.
I've worked with genius performers. Sometimes they created great work with a bad script... but not often. Play it safe: write well.
For me, it's all about having the performers feel confident in their movements and surroundings. And then I'll figure out how to photograph it afterward.
I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.
I'm slightly obsessed with drag queens and performers. Their quips and their one-liners, their style, their singing... I find it fascinating. And thoroughly entertaining. I'd love to play one.
Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.
Many performers try to sustain a high point in their careers by keeping themselves around those who are overanxious to tell them how good they are.
I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.
I like to know that my actors or my performers are going into it with the same amount of passion that I have for the project. They're as dedicated to achieving as I am.
There's a bit of hazing when it comes to the youth performers and a disbelief that you're capable of handling dramatic or comedic material on an adult level.
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
For directors and producers, you're not going to get competent performers on your set if they didn't start at a young age and understand professionalism.
The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.
There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.
The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together.
TWINS by Nefesch is a fantastic piece of truly impromptu mentalism which will only be performed by fearless performers. Highly recommended!
I have a bunch of storylines that I could pass to other performers or especially all my knowledge that I have when it comes to building matches, to creating an exciting finish or telling stories in the ring.
I learned how to sing in front of a lot of people and to hone my skills alongside some of the greatest performers of all time.
Having the presence of mind to react to any situation onstage is what makes the best performers keep their spontaneity intact.
CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and the performers.
I will say, the performers in the musical are some of the most super-talented people I've ever seen.
When I was younger, I barely left my room because I was busy watching clips of my favorite actors and performers on the Internet.
It's tough to stay focused and be able to separate life from our job. We are paid to perform, and we are performers. You gotta have good brothers to lean on.
Every performer should learn a little bit of everything. Most performers today only play the guitar.
I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.
