Performer Quotes

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

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

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.

Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

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