Performers Quotes · Page 2

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

— Jo Stafford

Only good performers get to work with me.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.

— Patti LuPone

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

— Kathleen Hanna

I'm not like a performer type.

— Dave Attell

Great performers welcome pressure.

— John Eliot

A high performer is someone who says, 'I want to be the best at what I'm doing.'

— Brendon Burchard

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

— Harry Houdini

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

— Martha Reeves

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

— Lester Bangs

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

— Sandra Bernhard

It's not my place to say if performers of quenelle should be punished.

— Samuel Eto'o

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

— Pete Wentz

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

— John Lone

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

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

You'll find that all WWE performers, when they go on to any television show or set of any kind, we're more prepared…

— Dean Ambrose

If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little…

— William O'Neil

I will say, the performers in the musical are some of the most super-talented people I've ever seen.

— Tom Scharpling

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 think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

— Elton John

Because I'm the only performer who comes out and says I've had plastic surgery, I've become the plastic surgery poster girl, which…

— Joan Rivers

I'm a singer. I'm a dancer. I'm a performer. I'm an actress. That's what I'm supposed to be doing. It makes me…

— Jennifer Lopez

I hope I'm beginning a new cycle of energy and creativity. If so, it'll really be my third career. The first was…

— George Carlin

Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves utterly,…

— John Eliot

I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling…

— Sandra Bernhard

There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

That is what lower performers do; they make others wrong for doing what is necessary in order to make themselves feel okay…

— Grant Cardone

I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with…

— Maria Bamford

I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area…

— George Carlin

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

— Bjork

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

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

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

— John Eliot

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

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

I love working with talented young performers.

— Jodi Benson

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

— Daisy May Cooper