Isaac Stern Quotes

There's the craft of acting, and then there's a quality. There's a quality that someone has.

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.

Composers are not all good conductors.

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.

Britain's got talent, enormous talent; that's very obvious.

Even when I was an engineer, I was a comic on my job. At birthday and holiday parties, I was the one scheduling and emceeing. If you work on your gift, and you're good, it will shine through.

If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.

I've always been an entertainer. It's in my blood, in the sense that I've always loved doing it.

There isn't an audience in the world that Billie Joe can't command.

I think acting is a gift. I think certain people for some reason just have a gift that they were meant to perform.

Any sort of performance was always what I was really born to do.

Jessie J's a funny, funny woman. What she does is she reels you in.

To me, diva means an extraordinary, outrageously theatrical, brilliant performer.

Sasha Banks stood out. She had tons of personality. I thought she was really good in a sense. I liked her sass and personality.

You can be an incredible player, but when you get onstage, you've gotta be yourself, and you've gotta bring it, as we say, and that just means give 120 percent.

Between my two girls, Alia showed a natural flair for acting.

The only two things that ever came naturally to me are music and investing.

Charisma, that's my strong point. My personality was always good, but with music I had to grow into it. I grew into who I am now.

There are actors who just bring an enormous amount of empathy. They just have that"it" that makes you want to follow them and root for them.

On stage, there are hundreds of people watching you. It's so much energy directed at you. I pick up energy really easily. Even if I go to the grocery store and no one is paying attention to me, I can pick up other people's moods and it's really intense.

You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.

Jack Nicholson is fairly gifted. We were at the Sistine Chapel, and everybody went from looking straight up to looking across the room at him.

I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.