Performers Quotes

All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform.

Talking about my personal life onstage, I've realized I'm not one of those comics who can do that. I can allude to it but I don't want to be a confessional performer.

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

If you're a performer, people tend to be quite positive about you or they have no opinion.

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.

My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.

I love performing in a good straight play as well and I'm a crossover actor, I crossover from plays to musicals, musicals to plays. This is very difficult for performers.

When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.

I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.

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

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

I have never met a grateful performer in the movies.

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers.

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.

The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.

You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

What would people think of a tradesman, that was to give a ball in his shop, hire performers, and hand refreshments about, with a view to benefit his business?

Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.

I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.

Great performers welcome pressure.

Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment.

Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.

All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream.

Performers may play in the studio, but they need to go out and tour every once in a while to keep their edge, or a performer who is a stranger may be asked to "sit in" on a set.

Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it.

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

TWINS by Nefesch is a fantastic piece of truly impromptu mentalism which will only be performed by fearless performers. Highly recommended!

When it comes to women, our perfectionism gives us a lot of grief. Women want to be super moms, super partners and super performers at work - and all at the same time. That's stressful.

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

I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

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

I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days when I came along.

My folks were country music performers. They made records and even did a few tours with the Grand Ole Opry. There always were a lot of guitarists around.

Every performer wants to sing live. That's what I live for.

I can remember in the early 60s that there were a couple of really dynamic women performers at the time - Brenda Lee, there was Connie Francis.

What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?

I love albums that have guest performers that the audience will be happy to hear. It's really a bonus!

No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.

It takes a lot of courage to be a performer.

I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show youre a great performer.

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.

I learned a lot about my audience and about myself as a performer, what I like to do live.

When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.