Performer Quotes

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good.

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

I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer.

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.

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

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.

I'm a total performer.

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.

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

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

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

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

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.

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.

When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way.

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

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

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