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Performer Quotes & Sayings

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I'm a performer. We don't retire. — Robert Goulet

I didn't want to be a performer. I didn't want to be famous. — Sophie B. Hawkins

I am a performer. I go on stage and make a fool of myself. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer. — Sondre Lerche

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz. — Oscar Peterson

Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life. — Damian McGinty

My whole thing as a performer is to affect people, whether I make you cry or I make you laugh. I would love to make you think. — Bresha Webb

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer. — A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

I'm not a natural born performer. — Amy Winehouse

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

I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer. — Taylor Hicks

I am a performer; that's what I like to do. — Seymour Cassel

It was curious to me then, as now, the power of the performer over an audience when, in fact, the gift itself springs from the writer's pen. — Kate Mulgrew

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

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

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

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person. — Billy Eichner

I was a late bloomer. I wasn't a child performer. — Christian Borle

I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you! — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Ryan [Gosling] has a history with the Mickey Mouse Club. He was a child performer himself. And he took the time to get to know people. — Joel Silver

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

I always knew I wanted to be a performer. — Heather Dubrow

Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage. — Mick Jagger

(Its) admirable words can purchase honour; (its) admirable deeds can raise their performer above others. — Lao-Tzu

Superwoman is more of a performer, which Lilly isn't. Having said that, I guess both of them are completely over the top, dramatic and full of energy. — Lilly Singh

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

I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince. — Ronnie Wood

There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun. — Beyonce Knowles

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher. — Juan Felipe Herrera

I want to be a well-rounded, versatile performer. — Zac Efron

One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom. — Meryl Davis

I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies. — Dagmara Dominczyk

I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am. — Bebe Neuwirth

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer. — Christopher Walken

The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it's not easy for me. — Margaret Cho

I wasn't really a performer by temperament. — Tom Lehrer

It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry. — Bonnie Langford

The encore is the short piece after the program has finished, where the performer brings out something that the audience doesn't expect. — Hilary Hahn

I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better that way, he is deluding himself. — Oliver

I've always been a performer. That's just what I know. — Lauren London

The high point for me in my career was when Sinatra called me his favourite performer in the Fifties. And I've been sold out ever since. — Tony Bennett

I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer, — Annaleigh Ashford

I was being touched by Carson Stinger, Straight Male Performer! No! Yes! Yes! Yes! Three yes's to one no. Majority rules! — Mia Sheridan

To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you're doing and insanely confident about your ability to pull it off. — John Eliot

I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm, like, a natural performer, but I'm getting better. — Dan Bejar

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly. — Donald Fagen

I've been a performer for a long time and I know when people are laughing from their guts, from the inside, and when their tuxedos are laughing. — George Carlin

As a performer, there was nobody better than Morrissey. — Mike Joyce

Am I a frustrated performer? My wife would say I am! I guess there has to be something of the performer in you if you build a global business. — Lloyd Dorfman

I feel like I've grown and become a more consummate performer. I feel like I've chiseled out a more distinctive niche. — James Wolpert

I'm growing as an actor and performer every week. — Allison Holker

I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key. — Leon Redbone

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

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

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do. — Grimes

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'. — Carla Bley

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer. — Pete Wentz

I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation. — Jason Alexander

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. — Victoria Beckham

I want to be remembered as a great performer. — Conrad Sewell

Objectivity is almost a choice you make. As a burlesque performer, I didn't choose to be objectified. — Esme Bianco

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted. — Arabella Weir

Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer. — Harry Houdini

Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show. — Bruce Forsyth

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

I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay. — Dustin Hoffman

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed. — Nick Cave

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

I think any great performer or athlete has to have a little bit of a gut to be great. — Lance Berkman

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors! — Terry Eagleton

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. — Andy Goldsworthy

I do like Jason Statham as a person and as an actor. I think he's a great performer, and he delivers every time. — Luke Evans

I was a street performer for two years. — Bernie Mac

I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much. — David Bowie

Find me any performer anywhere who isn't egocentric. You'd better believe you're good, or you've got no business being out there. — Johnny Carson

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

So far I have felt like a very inept slapstick performer." "Inept slapstick? Isn't that a bit redundant? — Neal Stephenson

On stage, don't go near her. She's the best performer in the world. — David Gest

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

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer. — Hedy Lamarr

I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer. — Lady Starlight

Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic. — T.F. Hodge

I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know? — Pauly Shore

On my Superwoman channel, I am more of a performer, I am aiming to make you guys laugh. With vlogs, it's just me and my day, boring or fun. — Lilly Singh

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist. — Ellie Goulding

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad
if you're indifferent, Endsville. — Frank Sinatra

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch. — Wanda Jackson

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

As a performer, I want to hit the last row of the arena. I want to make big moves. I'm a spaz, naturally. — Mark McGrath

I have never met a grateful performer in the movies. — Harry Cohn

Great acting is as much about the choices a performer makes as it is about their ability. — Stewart Stafford

I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess. — Flea

For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault. — Stephen Sondheim

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor. — Mayim Bialik

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be. — Billy Crystal

The art side of leadership involves orchestrating another performer's science to produce the desired result. — Orrin Woodward

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. — Fred Astaire

I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits. — Kathleen Hanna