Quotes About Performers

The alternative comedy scene is actually pretty small, I guess.

In L.A., a lot of comics live here, but we don't get to spend that much time together because we've got to drive 45 minutes home, or do another set. So in San Francisco we can hang out, go for dinner - the community aspect of it is really lovely, as well as seeing people's shows that you don't normally get to see a longer version of.

I think we are looked upon as a veteran band.

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

There are plenty of actors who've caught the singing bug and vice versa, but with musical performers, you're constantly a persona - which is something I love about acting: you play a character, you leave and you get to be yourself again.

Normally I play dads, good guys, and little animals.

Dad's mother and aunt were actresses.

I think Atlanta has been a drag capital for a long time. A lot of people get there start here.

We are entertainers. We're trying to entertain people.

You can call us what you want, but at the end of the day, we're entertainers.

I think that people are taking our artistry a little more serious compared to when we started. They are of course fascinated and entertained by who we are as performers and what we do in terms of our artistry, but a lot of viewers identify with us as human beings. I think that that has helped change how people view drag.

I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.

Well, they're all performers, aren't they? All mild exhibitionists. They're so busy putting themselves over that they haven't time to think about anyone else. It's not that they don't like other people; they just never have a moment to consider them.

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.

It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.

Laymen were able to make a career as composers and performers. Every prince and cardinal had his musical staff and cappella, his private orchestra. Especially in northern Italy, a public of musical connoisseurs existed, stimulating composers to seek subtle, tenuous effects. Technical mastery and the conquest of difficulties were recognized and applauded.

I'm a 'people pleaser'—I think most performers are, and when I'm in front of an audience I'll try to make those folks happy any which way I can.

In America, the least amusing people are its professional entertainers.

In our research we consistently found that the people who were most effective during the Investigating stage were the ones most likely to be top sales performers.

We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.

I read that young Netalia Lackless had run away with a troupe of traveling performers.

That's the key to happiness," Abbey declares. "Join the right circus.