Performer Quotes

The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work.

When I got lucky with Dean, I ended up with 16 years with one of the truly great performers of all time. He was the greatest performer I'd ever been around, bar none.

It's great to watch someone get the most out of what they can do, whether they're a beautiful performer or just a really gritty performer. It's something to behold.

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.

I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces.

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

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'.

As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible.

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.

I'm not like a performer type.

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.