I don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
Some people put a lot of fuss around them. I’m not an entertainer. Let’s not get things confused.
It’s been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can’t do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.
My initial impulse was to be an entertainer, a song and dance man.
Movies are the biggest entertainer in India.
You want to know why Barbra Streisand is so difficult? Because she’s brilliant. She’s a brilliant entertainer, she’s a brilliant lady, and she’s a wonderful human being, and the community doesn’t like it.
I am an entertainer.
Reality is, I’m an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn’t know what to do with another profession.
I like to think that I’m a populist entertainer, but I’m a little bit idiosyncratic, and sometimes the networks wouldn’t really roll with that.
But don’t call me an actor. I’m just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don’t say that what I am doing is art.
I think that there’s a difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.
I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.
Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you’re an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.
I am an entertainer by all means, and I am going to always take stages and will fall on my face with those stages without a care because I am not afraid to fail.
Sometimes I think that Rush Limbaugh is the dumbest man in America. This happens whenever I take him at face value and forget that he is basically an entertainer with contempt for his audience. He will tell them anything.
I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don’t drive, I wouldn’t mind riding a bike… People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I’m an artist, man. I’m going to live like an artist.
The only people I don’t reach on a very personal level are straight white men. They don’t really need another entertainer dedicated for them exclusively, so they’re fine.
Some musicians feel they have to provide what their audiences expect. They lose the distinction between an artist and an entertainer. I am not an entertainer.
I was not an athlete, but I was a break-dancer. I was a beatboxer, an entertainer.
You have no idea how many bags of money I’ve had to turn down. But if something doesn’t match up with our goals – if it’s too violent, or even if it’s just too boring – my father may have been a philosopher, but he was always an entertainer – we’re not going to take the money.
I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.
I genuinely do want the world to change in a positive way, but I wouldn’t call myself an activist, you know? I’m an entertainer who engages with activism because it feels really meaningful for me.
As a professional entertainer in sports, you get a lot of real-world experience in a world that’s not very real – which is a lot of what politics are.
I felt like for what I needed, Bad Boy got me… they got me covered. Especially Puff, man. He’s going to be the first billionaire rap entertainer. At the end of the day, they need me. Other artists-labels don’t need me, but Bad Boy and Puff needs me. And I need them. It goes both ways.
I am an entertainer and would sing a song if I know my voice would do justice to it.
As a designer, you are not only a designer, you are also a celebrity, an entertainer, and a spokesperson that speaks on behalf of the company. So you need to realize that you have to embrace all those sides.
I think of myself as an actor or a personality, the personality of Divine, an entertainer.
I’ve been given the tools necessary to be a great musician, a great entertainer, and great person that’s gonna inspire everyone.
Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh’s whole thing is entertainment. Yes, it is incendiary. Yes, it is ugly.
I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.
When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism… What’s hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.
Let’s be honest: I’m an athlete, not an entertainer as much.
I’m always trying to make myself a better sports entertainer.
You know, Rock’s a good guy. He’s a great entertainer, and I thought we could have done good things together.
My father was an entertainer. This is, of course, one of the most marked and enduring manifestations.
I have a wish list for ‘Awwal.’ I want to work with Ajay Devgn. I need an entertainer, a big star as this is a big film. I feel Ajay will be suitable for the film. He can seriously carry a comic role.
I am an entertainer and I am an athlete, and WWE is the biggest performance-based show in the world.
I really don’t think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.
You look in the mirror everyday and you see the same thing. As an entertainer, you wanna see something new.
I was discovered at 16, so all I’ve done is be a communicator and an entertainer all my life, and my energy is who I am in real life.
I’ve waited so long to get to this point, and I’m so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.
I did not dream of being an entertainer in the sense of being the one out front. I dreamed of being in the band. As a child, I’m like, I’m going around the world, I’m gonna be in the band. That was my dream.
As an entertainer, I try to do projects that reflect a woman having the ability to stand up for herself.
Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
I never considered myself an entertainer. I always felt I had to be connected to something meaningful, or it wasn’t worth doing.
I’m grateful that I’ve matured and that I’ve gained that wisdom to be a better person, a better actress, a better musician and a better entertainer overall.
That’s the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent!
I am a grown man who is an entertainer with a specific type of humour and if you don’t like it, that’s okay, I owe you nothing.
I admire Pat Shortt as a businessman. Such acumen is unusual for an entertainer. He did all his own deals. I learnt a lot from Pat when I was on the road with him for a year.
When I was in England, I did a lot of wrestling and moves. Over here, they were like, ‘You don’t need to do that much. Save your body. Become an entertainer rather than a wrestler.’ And I wasn’t used to wrestling on TV and in front of huge crowds, so it was a big adjustment.
I’m an entertainer – that’s what I do.
No matter what I put out, somebody will be offended. I made a video on 10 reasons to smile, and it has dislikes. That should be an indication that there will be some who get offended no matter what you do. The best you can do as an entertainer or as someone who performs is to follow what you believe in.
Broadway is another monster. I’ve been touring since I was 12 years old and I love being on the road – one day you’re here, next day it’s snowing, and the next you are in a desert and it’s 110 degrees. So I guess I’m kind of used to the madness physically that you go to when you are an entertainer. But it’s been great.
I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through.
CMR’ is a happy, stress-free movie. It has family emotions and punches in the form of dialogues. It’s a clean, family, summer entertainer.
Some people can be choosy because they’re ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don’t sit back and go, ‘Gosh, I wish I didn’t do that.’ It’s all part of the growth of a career, whether you’re an entertainer or a librarian.
To know how far I’ve come as a person and an entertainer and a businesswoman, I just hope I represent independence and intelligence and athleticism – everything that a woman should want to be.
Sometimes I get more excited for shows that I know are going to be quieter because it gets me more inspired to be more of a showman and be more of an entertainer and forces me to work harder.
The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.
I’m an entertainer, period. I can write it, I can speak it, and I can act it.
I feel an actor is an entertainer first then a performer.
