Performers Quotes

Conductors are performers.

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I was a street performer for two years.

— Bernie Mac

I'm a total performer.

— Aaliyah

Life is a performers not a rehals

— Dorcas

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

— Jo Stafford

I'm not a natural born performer.

— Amy Winehouse

I wasn't really a performer by temperament,

— Tom Lehrer

I think most performers are just lazy.

— Aaron Watson

The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Bad performers and bad clubs go out of business.

— Soupy Sales

Failing to remember is the primary reason for most performers' poor practising habits.

— Howard Snell

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

— Lady Gaga

Elvis is iconic; a lot of performers today look to that for inspiration.

— Beyonce Knowles

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

— Richard Pryor

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

— Norah Jones

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

— Tilda Swinton

For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.

— Stephen Sondheim

A writer is a performer as well. A writer isn't the literary department. That gets tried on but nothing's a script unless…

— William Monahan

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

— Leo Kottke

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to…

— Gregory Maguire

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

— Judd Apatow

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

— Rod Taylor

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

— Harry Houdini

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large…

— Shirley Temple

I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which…

— Jennifer Lopez

The performing part of it, that's what I live for. I've always told people that's what I was born for. I believe,…

— Ginuwine

There are those superstars who refuse to give anything of themselves to the public except what they see on-screen. In movies and…

— George Harrison

You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and…

— Elvis Costello

Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive…

— John Eliot

When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious…

— Tamara Tunie

Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.…

— Frank Zappa

I'm from the school that great performers and great leaders create more great leaders. Give people other experiences, other responsibilities. Have them…

— John Stumpf

A wonderful, warm, positive individual who exhibits the values that are prerequisite to a significant faculty post in higher education, I think…

— David Cerone

Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires…

— Lincoln Kirstein

We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called "fate," the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I become exaggerated, and loud, and obnoxious, and full of the spirit of improvisation. That's one of the weird things about performing,…

— Wayne White

Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to…

— Robertson Davies

What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women…

— Crystal Eastman

Only a fool takes offense at the truth, Jessamine. They are awful, of that there is no question. But they are also…

— Maryrose Wood

I've worked with Emily Skinner and I've seen Linda Balgord's work. I saw Harvey Keitel at the call-backs. But generally I don't…

— Max von Essen