Performer Quotes

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

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

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.

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.

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.

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.

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'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.

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

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.