Performer Quotes

It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good.

I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer.

No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

I'm a performer. We don't retire.

I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.

People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor.

I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.

Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer.