Performer Quotes

I'm a performer. We don't retire.

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

People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

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

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

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor.

Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

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

I'm a total performer.

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.

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately.

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

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

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.

For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.

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

I am a professional performer and I only appear on TV for entertainment or for philanthropic organizations, and I consider this a very serious matter that doesn't fit into either category.