Performer Quotes

In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off.

I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.

A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star.

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.

I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.

Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.

More than an actor, I am a performer... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.

I wasn't really a performer by temperament.

I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level.

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.

I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.

For me the voice is the most important, but making your singing believable makes a great performer.

The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.