Quotes About Passion

At heart, I was always a performer, not a competitor.

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever.

I've always been a performer.

Naturally you want to be the best mom you can, but then also you want to be the best performer you can.

I was a dancer and performer.

I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.

I was always a performer.

It's funny how you can say performing is in the blood, and if I'm considered a performer being an actor, then it's certainly in the blood.

I don't ever want to think my time is up as a performer. I have been afforded the opportunity to sell 150 million albums, to travel to places I never thought I would go. I'm going to keep on performing. I hope it never ends.

I'm the performer of the group. My thing is like, every time I come on stage, I always bring it 120 percent, 150 percent.

I don't want to be just a performer.

Very rarely in the life of an actor and a performer do you do something you truly believe in, do you do something you are absolutely proud of.

I was always a performer even as a child; I loved delving into various characters.

I grew up in show business, so I always knew I was going to be a dancer or a performer. I knew that was my business.

I'd always been a performer, growing up in a theatre school.

I always wanted to be a performer.

My love of performers is not really different than my love for painters. Everyone's really high-strung and trying to do the best they can.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are established and have talent, but who are ready to break new ground and really be cracked open in a new way.

Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.

I so miss musical theater. Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers.

Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.

Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.

I think that's what makes a great show: when the performers onstage aren't putting on a show, they're legitimately just having a freaking awesome time.