Quotes About Entertainment

I used to put all my doll babies on my bed with their hands up and I would do full shows for them. I'd even do the screaming and clapping. I was bugging to be a singer.

I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.

The very first show I did was 'Fame L.A.' Everyone had talent... it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.

My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

I don't need to do only one thing, you know? Even in the entertainment industry, nobody's 'just a singer.'

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.

I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

I'm a rock and roll singer.

My dad is a singer. He used to sing in nightclubs, or pizza joints.

I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.

I am happy being a playback singer and performer.

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she's the most boring singer in the world.

A singer doesn't sing at home: he or she wants his songs to reach out the audience. Audience always gives you your due.

Some artists see a gig as an audience worshipping them. I think it is about having a great time together. I have a part as the singer. An audience has a part. Playing a gig doesn't make me high on myself.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.

Even if your job is a professional singer, we still dork out at home.

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.