Performer Quotes

My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

He has all those different aspects to him, so I can more or less decide as a performer how I'm going to deliver a line in a particular scene, or play a particular scene in total.

I'm a performer. I've tried everything there is.

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

I think he is an entertainer. I would prefer if he were a performer.

My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.

If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.

All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform.

Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer.

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.

Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.

I'm a total performer.

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.