Performers Quotes · Page 14

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't…

— Dick Cavett

It's actually good when the performers are nervous, because it kind of sharpens up your brain and a little bit of adrenaline…

— Brian Henson

Jimmy Snuka was one of the great performers in the business. In ring performance wise he was phenomenal.

— Terry Funk

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard…

— Melanie Fiona

We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of…

— Neil Tennant

None of the original love and feel for going on stage is gone. I'm not a true singer. I'm performer, and I…

— Mark McGrath

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

— Amanda Marshall

I'm an actor. I'm not a performer. I'm not like a song and dance guy who can take a cane and a…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I just turned 40, and I look at so many performers and so many people who are actually always on time and…

— Maxwell

The difference between the top performers and the average or mediocre performers is not a great, massive difference. It is just a…

— Brian Tracy

I feel like my dad was the more artistic one, creating his own thing, loving to be around people, and all this…

— Jillian Hervey

It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur,…

— Charlie Rose

It's weird, I love acting and stand-up is a very unique, solitary thing where you are the writer, performer and director. But…

— Jim Gaffigan

As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

I've never seen a performer create electricity with an audience like James Brown. He's got everybody in his hands and whatever he…

— Michael Jackson

I will definitely start in small venues, as I want to find my feet as a performer; the first shows that Westlife…

— Shane Filan

I think we live in an entertainment world where performers like to flaunt how great they are. The Conchords don't do that.…

— James Bobin

My folks were country music performers. They made records and even did a few tours with the Grand Ole Opry. There always…

— Lenny Breau

That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.

— Ted Alexandro

I've worked with genius performers. Sometimes they created great work with a bad script... but not often. Play it safe: write well.

— Jerry Juhl

When I watch comedy I love to see that pleasure in the performer's eye and that sense of cheek - and even…

— Mathew Baynton

Few things turn-off an audience more than a performer with an air of self-imporance or a 'message.'

— Jay Sankey

At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat…

— Damien Chazelle

I love albums that have guest performers that the audience will be happy to hear. It's really a bonus!

— Lisa Loeb

There are certain performers that the gay community receives and recognizes with love, and my whole life, I've always responded to those…

— Annaleigh Ashford

You might be feeling sick or a little down, but the second you hit the stage and hear the crowd, you're ready…

— Mark McGrath

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the…

— Brian McKnight

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

— Jack Kirby

There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

— Beyonce Knowles

The British tradition, basically, is to go to the character. And the Hollywood tradition, shall we say, is basically to take the…

— John Hurt

Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.

— Robert Gottlieb

Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on…

— Tom Glazer

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent,…

— Frank Sinatra

I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. [And] I want to be known for what…

— George Carlin

I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days…

— Lena Horne

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really…

— Marc Maron

You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

— Morgan Brittany

The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of…

— David Lanz

It's personalities, it's conflict, it's all of these things that actually make performers interesting.

— Simon Cowell

I've always loved the rock & roll element to live shows, because whatever else I do, I'm basically a rock/pop performer, and…

— Marc Almond