340 Performer Quotes for You to Enjoy

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer. Patti LaBelle

Performer Am Real Decade After Showing Keep

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician. Patti Smith

Strong Musician Evolved Performer Know

He has all those different aspects to him, so I can more or less decide as a performer how I'm going to deliver a line in a particular scene, or play a particular scene in total. Paul Darrow

Those Total More Scene More Or Less Deliver He Performer Particular Him How Line Going Different Decide Aspects Less Play

It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection. Paul Merton

Good You People Young Sense Way Laugh Seems Good Way Instant Performer Like Make Because Does Making Friends Contradiction Person Who Connection Actually Shy Shy Person

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer. Pete Wentz

Stage Entertainer Give Performer Am Get Social

My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor. Peter Dinklage

Family Passion Brother Only Performer Him Real Ham His Being The Only Thing Now Actor Thing Kept Violin Violinist

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body. Philip Seymour Hoffman

My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go to work, and I am the master rigger, climbing trees and ladders and constructing. Only then I change my cap and become the performer. Philippe Petit

Work Time Change Walk Technically First Master Become Trees Dream Only My Time Constructing Divided Wire Performer Always Am Climbing Go Ladders Cap Then Prepare

I've blown myself up as a revolutionary and conscious artist. As a philanthropist and a performer. Raheem DeVaughn

Myself Philanthropist Performer Up Revolutionary Blown Artist Conscious

Mumaith Khan has unbelievable energy. She is a powerhouse performer. Rana Daggubati

Energy Khan Unbelievable Performer Powerhouse She

I think a lot of the fans want to see the high-flying action and be entertained. I don't think there is a better division out there than the cruiserweights to do that. It could be a pigeonhole for some, but at the end of the day, it's about whatever makes you happy as a performer. Rey Mysterio

A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star. Richard D. Zanuck

You Quality Matter Become Kind Athletes Able Good-Looking Perform Performer How Still Camera Lot Front Just Convincing Star Presence

I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing. Richard Pryor

Performer Became Because Doing Enjoyed

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. Rihanna

Music You Performer Performing Audience Where Painful Who

A friend of my mother's, Irene Lopez, was a Spanish dancer. She saw me bopping around the room and said to my mother, 'Rosita might have talent. Can I take her to my dance teacher?' There was no thought of a career at that time, but I knew I loved the attention, and that's so much a part of being a performer. Rita Moreno

Teacher Time Me Mother Dance Thought Dancer Saw Take Part Knew Attention Performer Talent She Around Said Friend Being Loved Spanish Room Might Much Her Career

I think probably with any performer, but maybe with rock music especially, the audience wants to see the singer being real, and exploring, and not doing a rehearsed routine, so I'm just constantly looking for new things to try. I'm really curious out there, and my curiosity has led me into all kinds of bizarre situations. Rivers Cuomo

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What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. Robert Fitzgerald

Myself Performer Particular Does Doing Translator Comparable

Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am, her genius as a performer will have to be taken on faith - and on the always-suspect evidence of film. What will last, if things go well, is her genius as a choreographer, as a woman of the theater. Robert Gottlieb

Faith Woman Genius Dance Will Evidence Those Martha Taken Performer Along Well Am Go George Commanding Than American Graham Theater Younger Much Figures Choreographer Film Her Things Last Two

It's the most unrealistic thing you can do to shoot a close-up, and it's the most unrealistic place you can be as a performer. And yet actors grouse about having to do visual effect shots, but they love doing close-ups. Robert Zemeckis

Love You Visual About Having Unrealistic Performer Most Doing Effect Close-Up Shoot Place Shots Actor Thing

I didn't spend my childhood trying to be a performer; it was a big surprise to me that this was what I was doing. But it has always felt quite natural to me. I wasn't taught to do what I do; I found out bit by bit. Roisin Murphy

Me Natural Big Spend Bit Out Performer Felt Always Doing Surprise Trying Quite Childhood Taught Big Surprise Found

I respect Lady Gaga's work as an artist and as a fellow fashion icon. She is a very talented performer, playing the piano, singing live, and dancing, too. Roisin Murphy

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