Performers Quotes · Page 3

Triple H is one of the greatest in-ring performers of all-time.

— Paul Heyman

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

— Irwin Thomas

They who are to be judges must also be performers.

— Aristotle

You need actors and performers, but there has to be content in a film.

— Karthik Subbaraj

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

— Kathie Lee Gifford

I so miss musical theater. Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers.

— Brianna Brown

I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.

— David Bowie

As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.

— Simon Baker

It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

— Dan Deacon

CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the…

— Chris Stein

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

— Laurence Olivier

I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. But I'm not in a league with Lenny…

— George Carlin

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

— Cate Blanchett

I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.

— Penn Jillette

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

— Elena Roger

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

— Clive James

For a long time, I've distinguished between entertainer and performer and entertainer and artist. To me, an entertainer is someone who pleases…

— George Carlin

I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little…

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry.…

— Neil Tennant

I'm not a director that's about precision and control and perfection, I'm about creating an atmosphere that's organic and interesting and then…

— David Gordon Green

The expertise displayed by each musician is jaw-dropping and it's matched by their sensitivity and taste... Lizzy Hoyt displays equal mastery of…

— Jim Sinclair

I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think…

— Laura Benanti

One think that you notice about anyone that gets up on stage is that they don't really have a lot of self-awareness.…

— Tyler Joseph

I think for me, as far as cooking, some of it came naturally just from watching my dad. My dad was more…

— Joey Fatone

If you buy all the stocks selling at or below two times earnings, you will lose money on half of them because…

— John Templeton

[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those…

— Bjork

In a personal way, to do with family and the father-son relationship, in a kind of artistic way with regard to him…

— Andy Serkis

I think that watching artists, soulful artists, they get into it. It's always the way I perform, so when I'm on stage…

— Justin Nozuka

If you get too heavy with the nods and winks, people get a sense that they're excluded from something. If they're in…

— Hugh Jackman

Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us…

— Mary Ruwart

Authority never matches responsibility. That's one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all…

— Tom Peters

What I love most about playing in front of people has something to do with a certain kind of energy exchange. The…

— Nils Frahm

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

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

People want performers, personality and drama, and you got that in the .

— Kim Wilde

Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.

— Claire Danes

A high performer is someone who says, 'I want to be the best at what I'm doing.'

— Brendon Burchard

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

— Harry Houdini

More than an actor, I am a performer. I'm a great believer

— Shahrukh Khan

I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly.

— Faith Hill

Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.

— Vincent Canby