Performers Quotes · Page 6

I wouldn't give a performer something I couldn't deliver myself.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

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

— Lea Michele

Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.

— Carrie Preston

Even world class performers can benefit from walk breaks.

— Jeff Galloway

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

— Lance Berkman

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

— Lisa Lopes

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

— John Eliot

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“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

Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and…

— Buck Rodgers

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

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

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

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

— Billy Eichner

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

— Natalie MacMaster

I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist.…

— Richie Havens

Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

I think there's something unfortunate about the attention that performers get in our media, but the weight of government propaganda is so…

— David Clennon

I've dabbled in running around on stage, and at certain times it's nice to step away from the anchor of the piano…

— Sara Bareilles

Interpreting gives me a chance to do what I do well and have done since I was a kid. At one time,…

— Jack Jason

I'm a performer. That's what I do. That and making money - it's the passion and the care factor for the people…

— Schoolboy Q

Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians…

— Victor Davis Hanson

I don't know what the hell I'm doing up there half the time. These performers that go on about their technique and…

— Elaine Stritch

'How the West was Won' was very hard, because it was a three cameras technique, meaning three cameras wide. Therefore I wasn't…

— Debbie Reynolds

Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each…

— Russell Lynes

Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,…

— Deborah Smith

People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity.…

— Antonio Damasio

When I get hired as an actor as opposed to a writer, one of things that's exciting for me is doing stuff…

— Stephen Merchant

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

A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters…

— Erving Goffman

Coming here, I sharpened and fine-tuned everything I had and needed. What I thought of as myself as a performer, I looked…

— Bo Dallas

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

— Simon Helberg

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

— Wanda Jackson

When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.

— Bruce Forsyth

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

— Tracey Ullman

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

— Ricky Jay

I have never met a grateful performer in the movies.

— Harry Cohn

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

— Nat Hentoff

I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay.

— Dustin Hoffman