Performers Quotes · Page 9

Comedy clubs have brick walls behind the performer. Bricks make you funny. When I'm in front of a fireplace, I'm hilarious.

— Mitch Hedberg

I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell…

— Alan Vega

The way that music is approached in the temple is very call and response; it breaks down that barrier between performer and…

— Taraka Larson

I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.

— Ronnie Wood

I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if…

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

As a performer, I want to hit the last row of the arena. I want to make big moves. I'm a spaz,…

— Mark McGrath

Part of the Hong Kong style is the fact that a lot of the performers can perform the moves, and we don't…

— Daniel Wu

There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do…

— Janet Jackson

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

— Joey Fatone

There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people…

— Eric Idle

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

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

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

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

Oh sure, I have lots of fears. My job is to conquer my fears. The irony of being a performer is that…

— Madonna Ciccone

Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are…

— Ernest Gold

As a musician, I don't have one thing that's "my thing." I like to create, and have a lot of outlets for…

— Chick Corea

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

— Elton John

Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.

— Lyle Lovett

What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks…

— Lewis Mumford

I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up…

— Kate Voegele

It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.

— Nikki Sixx

I'm most excited to see how I've grown as a performer. After Dancing With the Stars I really was able to evolve…

— Nick Carter

I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

— Bebe Neuwirth

I love to sing, dance, and act so I guess I am one! Although I definitely think that I have tons to…

— Megan Lee

The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.

— Eric Whitacre

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

— Ellie Goulding

Done right, a performance review is one of the best opportunities to encourage and support high performers and constructively improve your middle-…

— Kathryn Minshew

When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.

— Natalie MacMaster

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

— Billy Eichner

The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.

— John Monks

I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.

— Tom Lehrer

I tell a lot of young performers, 'Go get in trouble. Go commit yourself to something you're not sure you can do.'…

— Stephen Colbert

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a…

— Kirk Douglas

“It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months,…

— Timothy Ferriss

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the…

— Daniel Goleman

Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on…

— David Finckel

When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their…

— Mary Ruwart