Performer Quotes (page 41)

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• personality
• character
• personal

I love performing on stage the most. It's getting that instant reaction from a live audience. There are no boundaries, you can take your character as far as you want to, you can be the craziest person ever. Jennifer Ellison

• dance
• wanted
• dancing

I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act. Jennifer Ellison

• time
• ready
• sings

You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time. Missy Elliot

• hard
• earned
• performing

I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results. Im Dong-Hyun

• dead
• business
• intellectual

From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance. Esther Dyson

• drinking
• sober
• performance

I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing. Nora Dunn

• watch
• mother
• travel

My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me once or twice a year so they can watch the performances and hear the crowds. Traveling with eighty-something-year-olds on a tour bus... there has to be some sort of reality show in that. Jeff Dunham

• thoughts
• experience
• end

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. Isadora Duncan

• show
• performance
• shows

We're performing several shows in the Canary Islands. George Duke

• new
• different
• though

I'm planning a different show, though for obvious reasons some of the material will be the same, and of course I will perform material from the new CD. George Duke

• design
• classic
• wants

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance. Anne Dudley

• people
• look
• how

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. Andre Dubus

• nature
• personality
• personal

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach. Peter Drucker

• knowledge
• responsibility
• management

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. Peter Drucker

• good
• thinking
• profile

You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately. Minnie Driver