Performers Quotes · Page 6

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

— Elton John

I'm growing as an actor and performer every week.

— Allison Holker

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

— Tony Bennett

I have never met a grateful performer in the movies.

— Harry Cohn

Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.

— Ricky Jay

I'm usually put off by performers when they get political

— Tracey Ullman

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

— Wanda Jackson

Meryl Streep is so brilliant is because she is so human, and aware as a performer.

— Simon Helberg

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

— George Carlin

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

— Laurence Olivier

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

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

— Elena Roger

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

— Steve Carell

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to…

— Brendan Coyle

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 shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, "My character this, and my character that." Like beating a dead…

— Bob Dylan

I don't view the fans in the way that most performers do. As a mass of people who have paid money, I…

— Pete Townshend

I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family…

— John Travolta

Some writers are more natural public performers than others; personally I find it quite strange giving interviews. But everyone has parts of…

— Monica Ali

As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any…

— Marilyn Manson

I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James…

— Jennifer Lopez

I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on…

— Roselyn Sanchez

Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Mads has a terrifying subtlety and as the episodes go on, you start seeing the way a person can command other people…

— David Slade

Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has…

— Bill Walsh

Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James…

— Alex Gibney

Typical pay increases are not enough to motivate employees, but they are enough to irritate them. … Even when companies create seemingly…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

I find myself skeptical of music that forces you to have a certain experience, emotional reaction, or specific constructive arc of experience.…

— Vijay Iyer

When I finally got together with Rostropovich as a student, he was very focused, almost entirely focused on the music itself, on…

— David Finckel

Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough…

— Stephen Jay Gould

A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To…

— Peter Lynch

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— John Eliot

Kids listen to performers and we have a duty to give them certain critical information.

— Lisa Lopes

I think any great performer or athlete has to have a little bit of a gut to be great.

— Lance Berkman

Even world class performers can benefit from walk breaks.

— Jeff Galloway

I'm honored to be in a position to have young girls or performers look up to me.

— Lea Michele

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

— Dan Deacon

Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And…

— Bruce Forsyth