Performers Quotes · Page 4

Peak performers replace depletion with inspiration on a daily basis.

— Robin Sharma

Bill Cosby is one of America's most successful black performers.

— Renee Montagne

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

— Christopher Walken

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer and I love rock 'n' roll.

— Patti Smith

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

— Debbie Harry

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

— Walter Piston

She [Beyonce] is just an energetic performer and she loves drums. She loves edge.

— Bryce Wilson

Birds are the first and the greatest performers.

— Olivier Messiaen

I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.

— Sting

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

Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest…

— Damian McGinty

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

— Sarah Silverman

I believe a lot in the relationship between performers. When you're supported by someone's eyes, you're not alone.

— Clemence Poesy

Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.

— Harry Houdini

Broadway is not just the song and the shows; it's the individual performers and the community.

— Darren Criss

Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it…

— Allan Kozinn

There are plenty of actors who've caught the singing bug and vice versa, but with musical performers, you're constantly a persona -…

— Freddie Stroma

There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When…

— Beverly Sills

I think that all the talented filmmakers sort of share, I think, a sense of allowing magic to happen; of creating a…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

No matter what, I will always prefer a live performance. Whether it be a play or a musical, or playing music live.…

— Darren Criss

Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself…

— George Carlin

Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to…

— Clive Davis

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

— Nils Frahm

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

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

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

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

— Bjork

I'm a Gemini, so there's two people in me. Straight up. There's the nerd who is totally zoned out in the studio,…

— G-Eazy

If you're looking at the array of performers, there's just a lot of people that it's about getting closer to them. That's…

— John Flansburgh

It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of…

— Rene Balcer

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

— Tom Waits

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Uri Geller

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

— Leona Lewis

“People who energize others are higher performers.”

— Sukant Ratnakar

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

— Jenny Slate

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

— Walter Piston

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

— Gene Pitney