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.

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.

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

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 wasn't really a performer by temperament.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

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'm a performer. I've tried everything there is.

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.