Quotes About Expression

I was always a performer even as a child; I loved delving into various characters.

Costumes are great. That kind of effort tells the audience that the performer has taken the time to be the total package.

All you have to offer as a performer is yourself.

My experience of being a singer and performer is there is something meditative and very positive about singing, just resonating the inside of your body.

But I do think I'm quite a selfish performer in the sense that I'm not one of those that's like 'Hey, come on everybody lets sing along' you know that kind of thing.

I'd always been a performer, growing up in a theatre school.

I needed to get attention a lot of times - I'm a performer, that's who I am.

I think there's something for anyone who wants to be a performer in Seattle.

You just know that you're a performer and that's that.

I'm a better writer than a performer. Everyone wants to feel like they're a bit of a polymath, and I certainly feel that.

I'm a musician, and I feel like musicians owe it to themselves and owe it to music to concern themselves with as much of music as interests them. Even if you decide that you're never going to compose, you will be a better performer if you concern yourself with the craft of composition.

Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any sort of a performance liberty, you're making a compositional choice. I don't know a serious performer who hasn't made compositional decisions, who hasn't engaged in the art of composition.

I feel an actor is an entertainer first then a performer.

And often, once you've done it five or six times, a performer has to start dredging up emotions from a new place, which is harder to do.

As an artist, you want to form your own identity and be your own performer.

I'm usually put off by performers when they get political.

My love of performers is not really different than my love for painters. Everyone's really high-strung and trying to do the best they can.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are established and have talent, but who are ready to break new ground and really be cracked open in a new way.

Conductors are performers.

The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'

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.

It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.

Truly great performers reveal not only their characters but bring everything they know about the world with them. It's not just what's in the script but the story of everything you've done and of who you are. If you're Chaplin, you're the immigrant. No matter what he's doing, he's always the little guy trying to make his place in the world.