We never forget we’re all in this together. But Gwen’s an incredible performer and she deserves all the attention she gets.
I was always a performer even as a child; I loved delving into various characters.
I don’t actually like calling myself a rapper. I’m more a performer.
I’ve always been a performer. I love doing impressions of people and being the clown.
When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.
I don’t think there’s a performer in this world who makes better use of their surroundings than I do.
It’s physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.
When a male stunt performer falls down a flight of stairs, he has a lot of clothes on and can wear all this padding. But because actresses never have a lot of clothes on – they are always falling in their underwear – you can’t wear any padding whatsoever.
I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.
I wanted to be performer; like, I used to dance at weddings. I felt acting was my calling, and that is something I wanted to do.
As a performer, I’m happy if one person gets to see the work I do, but to have lots of people see it and appreciate it, it feels good.
I just love seeing my audience live, and I also love to see my peers perform because it inspires me to be a better performer as well.
I’m a performer. We don’t retire.
The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It’s just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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 didn’t want to lose another top performer.
I love New York. I’m working on Broadway, and it’s a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.
Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.
I’m very excited! To be sharing the stage of Katy Perry and Dua Lipa is an honour. I’ve watched Katy live and she’s phenomenal to watch. A true performer!
I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched as a performer as I got older, to have an audience which got older, too, and would come to see me when I’m 80.
I think of myself as someone who’s trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.
The most important thing for any performer is to know your own weaknesses. It’s much more important to know what you can’t do than what you can do.
My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a hairdo.
Pittsburgh’s definitely the city where I learned how to be on a stage, hold a microphone, and interact with an audience. It’s where I got my chops as an entertainer and as a performer, so I’m grateful to the queer community there because they are active and vocal and they care about each other.
I didn’t grow up being a performer, really. I played baseball.
My experience of being a singer and performer is there is something meditative and very positive about singing, just resonating the inside of your body.
The crowd is the crowd. You’re gonna take them as an individual performer how you take them. The key is how do you learn from them. How do you use whatever is happening reaction-wise to get better.
I definitely always wanted to be a singer and a performer. I think I got it from my parents because my dad’s a singer and my mom’s a singer, so it kind of runs in the family and I just thought it was normal.
I’m still a really shy performer and can’t wear high heels and need to be with bare feet.
And often, once you’ve done it five or six times, a performer has to start dredging up emotions from a new place, which is harder to do.
Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded… They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer.
If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.
But I do think I’m quite a selfish performer in the sense that I’m not one of those that’s like ‘Hey, come on everybody lets sing along’ you know that kind of thing.
