Performers famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.
-- Anneliese van der Pol -
I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
-- Bebe Neuwirth -
I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be.
-- Billy Crystal -
My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.
-- Bobby Darin -
I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.
-- Bobby Vinton -
Although I'm predominantly known for game-shows, I do prefer to be known as a performer.
-- Bruce Forsyth -
I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.
-- Cate Blanchett -
Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
-- Charley Pride -
Shawn Michaels is quite simply the greatest performer in WWE history.
-- Chris Jericho -
Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.
-- Ciara -
I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.
-- Criss Angel -
I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
-- Dagmara Dominczyk -
Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
-- Damian McGinty -
All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform.
-- David Hasselhoff -
Talking about my personal life onstage, I've realized I'm not one of those comics who can do that. I can allude to it but I don't want to be a confessional performer...
-- David Rees -
But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.
-- Debbie Harry -
I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.
-- Donald Fagen -
If you're a performer, people tend to be quite positive about you or they have no opinion.
-- Eddie Izzard -
To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco -
All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.
-- Eugene H. Peterson -
I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
-- Fergie -
I'm a performer. I've tried everything there is.
-- Gene Pitney -
I have never met a grateful performer in the movies.
-- Harry Cohn -
It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.
-- Harry Houdini -
The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.
-- James Galway -
It's never like we're up there being miserable at work, that's not something that happens for us. We love our work. So, when the performer loves what they're doing, it's easy for us to love what we're doing.
-- Jennifer Abbott -
I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.
-- Jenny Slate -
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.
-- John Hurt -
I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.
-- John Lone -
It's great to watch someone get the most out of what they can do, whether they're a beautiful performer or just a really gritty performer. It's something to behold.
-- John Turturro -
I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.
-- Kathie Lee Gifford -
I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.
-- Lauren London -
Every performer wants to sing live. That's what I live for.
-- Leona Lewis -
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.
-- Lesley Gore -
The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.
-- Linda Ronstadt -
You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.
-- Luke Bryan -
The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show youre a great performer.
-- Mark V. Hurd -
Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.
-- Melanie Fiona -
I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.
-- Mick Ronson -
When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.
-- Natalie MacMaster -
My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.
-- Nick Offerman -
I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.
-- Patti LaBelle -
I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
-- Penn Jillette -
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.
-- Richard Pryor -
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
-- Robert Fitzgerald -
I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.
-- Sandra Bernhard -
There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.
-- Sandra Bernhard -
As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.
-- Simon Baker -
Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.
-- Steve Carell -
It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.
-- Tilda Swinton -
I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.
-- Tom Lehrer -
Top performers take action now, they move, they execute.
-- Tony Jeary -
I'm usually put off by performers when they get political
-- Tracey Ullman -
I sought a great performer who would deeply impress me, and I found Lior Suchard.
-- Uri Geller -
I must say Ive always composed music from the point of view of the performers.
-- Walter Piston -
I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.
-- Wanda Jackson -
If there's one big thing you can take from Amy Poehler as a performer, it's committing, full on.
-- Andy Daly -
All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream.
-- John Eliot -
When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.
-- Paul Lansky -
I was so fortunate to sing and work with so many amazing performers and artists.
-- Rayvon Owen -
She [Beyonce] is just an energetic performer and she loves drums. She loves edge.
-- Bryce Wilson -
I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.
-- Allen Toussaint -
Something very rare in this day and age is to see performers do something that has never been done before.
-- Matt Hardy -
Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.
-- Carrie Preston -
Birds are the first and the greatest performers.
-- Olivier Messiaen -
To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.
-- Rod Taylor -
Meryl Streep is so brilliant is because she is so human, and aware as a performer.
-- Simon Helberg -
I will say, the performers in the musical are some of the most super-talented people I've ever seen.
-- Tom Scharpling -
As a performer, I could be like, "I don't want to leave that in there." But as a producer, I have to leave it in there.
-- Karina Longworth -
I wouldn't give a performer something I couldn't deliver myself.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda