Performers Quotes · Page 5

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

— Sandra Bernhard

Top performers take action now, they move, they execute.

— Tony Jeary

Broadway performers are the best-trained people on the planet.

— Frankie Grande

It's brilliant there are so many writer-performers around.

— Daisy May Cooper

I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

— Anneliese van der Pol

Stress is the high-level performers PowerBar.

— John Eliot

“elite performers have something in common: They’re really good at taking breaks”

— Daniel H. Pink

Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.

— Ciara

Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what…

— Thia Megia

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

— Donald Fagen

Talking about my personal life onstage, I've realized I'm not one of those comics who can do that. I can allude to…

— David Rees

Although I'm predominantly known for game-shows, I do prefer to be known as a performer.

— Bruce Forsyth

I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and…

— Kate Brown

I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa.…

— Haley Reinhart

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy,…

— Scott Aukerman

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

— Sarah Silverman

I just listen to so much music that I like the role music can play in scoring something. I'm not doing song…

— Demetri Martin

A lot of guys get slammed pretty hard. I do think there's a tendency with women performers to just sort of write…

— Nina Gordon

Maybe there is a feeling that women get judged more about how they look and how they present themselves visually as opposed…

— Planningtorock

I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing,…

— Amy Seimetz

Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage,…

— Brian Tracy

I still get excited performing live. When you see the immediate reaction from a crowd, its like being a theater performer, its…

— Marilyn Manson

As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you…

— Claire Danes

Dane Cook is one of the most exciting comedy stars to emerge on the scene in many years, and his ability to…

— Chris Albrecht

Comedy is a funny thing, and it's really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in…

— Joe Rogan

The best players in any high-stakes field - business, entertainment, law, surgery, as well as sport - recognize that pressure occurs at…

— John Eliot

Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to the…

— John Eliot

Society is about masks and hiding and pretending to be something that you're not and not opening up, and in acting, you…

— Ben Wheatley

I've thought about bands or performers who appear from nowhere: You come out of the greenroom in this secure little unit, then…

— Sue Tompkins

I've had it for about 13 years, and I don't see any reason to change, I find that the violin just keeps…

— Hilary Hahn

No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star…

— Yvonne Rainer

When I was a child, I dreamt of being a big star. I truly believed that I would be world famous someday,…

— Jinkx Monsoon

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

— Patti LaBelle

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

— Gene Pitney

Just as performers, I think you'd be an idiot not to utilize YouTube.

— Noel Wells

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

— Jenny Slate

“People who energize others are higher performers.”

— Sukant Ratnakar

I have always had a performers instinct since I was a child.

— Shriya Pilgaonkar

I must say I've always composed music from the point of view of the performers.

— Walter Piston

I sought a great performer who would deeply impress me, and I found Lior Suchard.

— Uri Geller