I’ve enjoyed appearing in Atlantic City. East Coast audiences are a bit brighter than Las Vegas audiences. I think most entertainers will tell you the same thing. The East Coast audiences are more perceptive – especially when it comes to a performer with a theatrical background.
I think I went more toward writing because that’s my talent. I don’t think I was a great performer… And I like being behind the scenes a little bit.
I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.
The Ric Flair, I am his teacher from the Minnesota. We work together. He great performer, he great talker.
But I like the process of putting a show together and the impact that Edinburgh has on me as a performer.
As a performer, I need to change in the ring, to be a little bit more aggressive and go about things in a different way rather than Bayley following the rules all the time.
Right now, I’m thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.
I feel an actor is an entertainer first then a performer.
Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.
I was a Green Day guy because the first DVD I bought was Green Day’s ‘Bullet In A Bible,’ the live album. That really empowered me to be not just a drummer but a performer. It’s a really crucial part of why I wanted to be in a band.
I know who I am and what I’m doing in my life and what I’ve accomplished and continue to accomplish as a performer, as a writer, as an artist, as a person, as a human being.
I don’t want to be the oldest performer in captivity… I don’t want to look like a little old man dancing out there.
I’ve always been a bit dressed up, even on casual days. I suppose that’s the performer in me.
We have done ‘Talvar’ in three different parts, recreating three different scenarios. And so, it was very interesting for me as a performer to be a part of this film.
And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it’s very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with.
I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.
Everybody who’s ever influenced me, from a Richard Prior to a Whoopie Goldberg to, you know, any of the voices that have resonated with me as a performer since I was a kid, you know, you couldn’t really say that their work didn’t have some element of political commentary in it.
I’ve always been compelled by some force to be a performer.
Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There’s a connection because there’s a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.
I played on a lot of Sinatra sessions. He was simply awesome. He liked to laugh, and he could be one of the boys when he wanted. But he was also a very serious performer.
I’ve blown myself up as a revolutionary and conscious artist. As a philanthropist and a performer.
When you talk about the exchange of energy between performer and audience and audience and performer, I hope that I’m one of the best.
I’m able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly.
The thing that keeps me being a performer is my interest in society’s obsession with identity, because I’m not sure that I really believe identity exists.
I was a salsa dancer for the majority of my life, from, like, 7 to 17, and did the World Salsa Congresses. I realized that I wanted to continue obviously to be a performer. But in my household, being an actor and jumping into acting is not really accepted.
I haven’t had a lot of comedy come my way as a performer.
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.
As a performer, I want to push my boundaries and try different roles.
Improvising is writing, too – there was no music and now there’s music. So that’s composition. And any time you take any sort of a performance liberty, you’re making a compositional choice. I don’t know a serious performer who hasn’t made compositional decisions, who hasn’t engaged in the art of composition.
I never wanted to be a performer, I never wanted to be Yo Yo Honey Singh, the rock star.
Prince is the ultimate performer. Prince is that dude that’s going to get on stage by himself, if he need to, but hold you in the palm of his hand. Like, you can’t take your eyes off the man when he’s on stage, and he could just be sitting there playing his guitar.
It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.
I’m a mezzo-soprano, so the whole diva thing… I’m not the kind of performer who puts on a persona off-stage as well, and the days of arriving with steamer trunks and hat boxes are over.
If a comedian has a strong following, and the branded segment feels different compared to what you typically do, people will know right away that it’s not authentic to who you are as a comedian or performer. Brands need to keep that in mind.
First of all, I’m a performer, so people really want to see my performance in different styles and genres. We tried to do hip-hop and EDM, and very energetic performances through ‘Camo,’ ‘Nega Dola,’ and ‘One Shot, Two Shot.’
You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It’s not that important.
My experience for myself as a performer is not one of high expectations.
For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
It’s hard for a country performer to make a living in a Beatles society.
I used to be naive. I didn’t realize the value of being a whole performer… People start to care about you when they know more about you and see different aspects of your personality.
As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one ‘language’ of gender or ‘appearance.’
Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you’re trained from the beginning to be a live performer.
As an artist, you want to form your own identity and be your own performer.
It’s a performer’s worst nightmare: to hurt yourself on stage and not be able to remove yourself from the stage.
I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.
I think The Undertaker is, much like Brock Lesnar, a once-in-a-lifetime wrestler, a once-in-a-lifetime athlete, and a once-in-a-lifetime performer.
It’s interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I’m creating my own path… and I’m working on growing as a performer.
I have worked really hard to reach where I am – I worked hard on my Hindi and diction because I am a Parsi and Hindi is not my strong point, and I’ve also learnt Tamil and Telugu because I want to get my lines right. I want to be known as a performer.
I’m a singer and performer in a hybrid show that’s standup, music and audience participation.
I have been doing comedy for the last 15 years but I don’t have any qualms admitting that I have learnt a lot from Kapil Sharma. I respect his talent and have not seen a performer like him in my career.
A. J. Styles is an incredible performer; very spectacular.
I really never had any thought about being a legitimate actor, like a stage performer. I wanted to make movies. I wanted to do television and make movies.
I started as a pretty quiet kid and have had to evolve into a performer.
What’s sad is that we can have a reality-television performer for president without incorporating the other aspects of reality television – like voting and voter engagement.
If a thing is going to represent you, your vision, you should be involved in every aspect of that thing. I like my role as executive producer on anything probably as much as performer.
One thing that I am becoming to learn is that you’ve got to have patience and wait your turn in this game. I feel like I am progressing as an artist, as a writer and as a performer and I know that there will be that one moment that will change everything.
Cancer reminds me of a very bad but tenacious performer who, although no one wants to see, insists on doing an encore, having a return engagement, making a comeback and, worst of all, going on tour.
I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.
What the translator – myself in particular – does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
At heart, I was always a performer, not a competitor.
I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn’t sound like communism to me.
