Performer Quotes - page 6

When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so. (Bruce Forsyth)
Although I'm predominantly known for game-shows, I do prefer to be known as a performer. View quote
Bruce Forsyth
When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up. View quote
Bruce Forsyth
I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am. View quote
Bebe Neuwirth
It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur, as a performer and an icon. The idea of building a series of programmes and choosing people that I think have talent to do them would be a very interesting idea. I would love to show that television can have soul, depth and range. View quote
Charlie Rose
Sometimes people ask me, 'You do stand-up?' I try explaining what I do, and I don't think they really get it. So: 'Yeah, I do stand-up.' I wish there was one word to express what I do - that way, I don't sound arrogant. Whenever I say I'm a performer, people think I'm a performance artist: 'She paints herself white and pretends to be a flower.' View quote
Charlyne Yi
If I could perform on stage with any musical act or performer, it would be Sugar Ray, just to fulfill my childhood dream of singing with Mark McGrath. View quote
Chelsea Kane
I definitely am a performer, and there are different styles of stand-up; I mean, some people are writers and they get onstage to get jokes out, and that's definitely not what I do. I like to just go up and, if I'm telling a story about someone, I'll play his or her part. View quote
Chris D'Elia
I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at. View quote
Criss Angel
I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live. View quote
Criss Angel
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'. (Carla Bley)
I think he is an entertainer. I would prefer if he were a performer. View quote
Carol Bellamy
Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person. View quote
Carrie Preston
On stage, don't go near her. She's the best performer in the world. View quote
David Gest
All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform. View quote
David Hasselhoff
Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer. View quote
Denis Lavant
I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live theater. I'm a performer. That's what I do. That's what I want to do. View quote
Derek Hough
I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly. View quote
Donald Fagen
It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time. View quote
Dan Deacon
Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting. View quote
Daniel Breaker
A performer needs to feel the part to be the part! (Daniella Monet)
At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting. View quote
Elena Roger
Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn. View quote
Eric Liu
I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly. View quote
Faith Hill
The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real. View quote
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