Top 385 Performer Quotes

It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.

I’m an athlete. I’m a performer. Why the hell did I never think of combining the two?

I wanted to try everything. I learnt a lot from playback singing. But at heart, I’m a pop rock singer; I’m a stage performer.

A.J. Styles is great – he’s a great performer – so I’m not going to take anything away from him.

For me, as a performer or a songwriter, Stevie Nicks is always a huge inspiration as well as Iggy Pop.

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he’s become a different person.

I love doing my music videos. I have grown up loving independent music and I am more of a performer than a playback singer and hence I want that if it’s my voice, then it should be my face too.

As a performer, you want your audience to have as much fun as you are having on stage.

I wanted music to be a career. To base everything on fame to me seemed a dangerous thing – I wanted my foundations to be about improving as a performer and writer. No one could push me into going down that route of being a celebrity singer.

I don’t believe anything is truly off limits, but as a performer, one has to know that people might be offended, and there are consequences.

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

Am I a frustrated performer? My wife would say I am! I guess there has to be something of the performer in you if you build a global business.

I love my fans, and I love my relationship with the fans, but when you’re a performer, and you’re used to being the mac daddy, the main cat, and all of a sudden you’re not that guy anymore, it’s kind of a whole different spectrum and a whole different level.

I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?

If you’re performing music that is not who you are or where you’re at, it is painful. It’s painful for the performer and for the audience.

To me, diva means an extraordinary, outrageously theatrical, brilliant performer.

When I was three, I lived in Florida, and my mom took me to see the touring production of ‘Cats.’ And I was, like, absolutely silent – which for a 3-year-old never happens – and I turned to her and said, ‘I need to do this.’ That’s when I started my performer journey.

I learned so much from Jane Lynch. She was the funniest and most talented person. She taught me so much about being a performer.

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it’s memorable… If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there’s really not much point in you having been there – or me, for that matter.

I’m not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together. In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it’s the recording or the performance side.

I want my audience to be my friends – that is when they will get the best comedy. If they see me as a performer, they won’t get the best show.

One challenge, if you do a website, a Youtube channel, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Ping, other things like that, is you don’t have time to be an artist. As a performer, you need to practice.

I’m a performer.

Doing a show like ‘Dancing On Ice,’ if you are not a performer, it’s a bizarre world to go into.

I don’t feel like I’m the type of performer who’s going to knock your socks off. I’m trying to get over my nerves.

I wouldn’t be the performer I am if everyone thought I was the best. Having people against you, or who don’t quite believe in you, gives a lot of extra fuel to never settle.

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

You just know that you’re a performer and that’s that.

I always considered myself a performer. It’s what God gave me. It doesn’t matter if one person hears it or a million.

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

I’ve been a live performer longer than I’ve been a television performer. For me, live is where it’s at.

I remember I had a boyfriend a long time ago who said, ‘You need to change your name; you sound like a circus performer.’

Yes, I did have occasional scripts like a ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ or a ‘Talwaar’ that nurtured the performer in me, but I do wish there were more options.

When I was younger, I always wanted to be a musician, a performer and an entertainer – but I never thought about becoming a poster or anything like that. It’s pretty cool.

I’d say that, first and foremost, I’m a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

I was 17 or 18 when ‘The Twist’ came along, and the rest is history. Sometimes I regret it. I would have gotten more into acting. I would have been more of a legitimate performer onstage like Liza Minnelli. But I got so caught up in the dance thing that I never got into theater.

This sounds like I’m a loser, but when I’m feeling down, or I need a bit of motivation, I do watch old NXT matches because they have some of my favourite memories as a performer in WWE.

It’s nice to be in a smaller room. I like the big arenas as well, but at my core, I’m a live performer, so it’s nice to be able to feel the warmth of everybody in the room.

I needed the time to go to college and spend years with people who aren’t in the business and become a person on my own in order to be the person that I am and the performer that I am. I wouldn’t give that up to be in blockbusters or have more money.

In ‘Yours Truly,’ I was the centre of the story; I was the protagonist. There was a lot more happening inside the mind of the character which was not projected loudly through dialogue and action… As a performer, playing such a nuanced, internal character is challenging.

I truly enjoy and love acting, it’s a passion and is therapeutic for me. It is the one thing that makes me truly happy. My sole goal is to grow as a performer each day.

Behind every great athlete is a masterful coach that inspires the athlete to evolve into the strongest performer they can become.

I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.

I think there’s always been a little performer in me. But having a family that are Jamaican immigrants, having this idea that, ‘Oh, that’s what you’re going to do for a living?’ seems kind of out of reach and not a reality. It’s like, ‘get a real job.’

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It’s thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that’s not me. Often with actors, it’s a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where’s the substance?

I love listening to things like those wonderful piano pieces of Stockhausen. It’s just not my thing as a composer or performer, and thank goodness we’re not obliged to be Modernist any more.

When you’re a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you’re in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

Since I was very young, probably two or three, I had really good memorization skills. I would memorize stuff from TV and perform it for my family. I was the little performer for most of my early life. So eventually, my mom caught onto that and thought I might want to get into acting.

As a performer, you’re constantly re-branding.

I have thought about some kind of musical involving my music. That would be kind of interesting. I have thought of it in that way, as a creator of something, not so much a performer. So that’s in my head.

My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.

I think CM Punk is a hell of an in-ring performer.

The point of my job is to entertain and make it look easy, so I guess it’s the parts you don’t often see which make me feel proud. All the behind the scenes work, the fears and insecurities I have to face and overcome to improve myself as a person and performer, all of the people who believe in me and encourage me.

I think I’m not a natural performer; I think I’m an actor.

I know that as a performer how much we rely on the fans for how we feel and react.

Being a top performer – whether it’s in business or on the athletic field – requires grit and tenacity, as well as the continuous desire to become better.

I’m 90% performer, 10% musician. I’ve always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.