Performer Quotes - page 7

I'm a performer. I've tried everything there is. (Gene Pitney)
For me the voice is the most important, but making your singing believable makes a great performer. View quote
Hollie Cavanagh
I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage. View quote
Haley Reinhart
When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way. View quote
Ivan Reitman
The mind of the performer is a very strange thing. View quote
James Galway
I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer. View quote
Jamie Farr
One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer. View quote
Janet Suzman
I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director. View quote
Jason Patric
For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies. View quote
Joan Chen
What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks. View quote
Jack McBrayer
It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer. (John Hurt)
I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer. View quote
John Lone
Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone's perception of the band. View quote
Johnny Ramone
Pro wrestling was there, and I was good at it, thank God. I started getting a lot of offers, but unfortunately, at WWE I was under a tight leash. I think it had a lot to do with The Rock making the transition, and me possibly being the next guy - you know, the company didnt want to lose another top performer. View quote
Kurt Angle
I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care. View quote
Kate Voegele
I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key. View quote
Leon Redbone
You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer. View quote
Luke Bryan
The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If youre not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, youre kind of stuck. View quote
Lyle Lovett
I think we've become a TV culture where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away. View quote
Laura Benanti
I've always been a performer. That's just what I know. View quote
Lauren London
My entire life, I've always known that I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know exactly how, where or when. I never learned or studied the craft, formally. I grew up doing martial arts and playing piano. But, something inside of me always said that I was going to do this, as far back as I can remember. (Laz Alonso)
I was 17 when I auditioned for 'Miss Saigon.' I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a year into 'Miss Saigon,' that I was going to be a performer, that I was going to be singing and acting. View quote
Lea Salonga
I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person. View quote
Mark Russell
Yes, I am transgendered but I also am a cross-dresser - I dress as a woman. It's not that I just want to be seen as a female in our society, I'm also a drag queen and a performer - there are many levels there. View quote
Alexis Arquette
I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer. View quote
Andrea Martin