Quotes About Public

I'm too scared to perform onstage. I'm not very good with big crowds.

I respect very much my public and also the music I perform.

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.

When I first started out, I was really, really scared when I performed before an audience. I'd look over their heads.

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.

Gawking at one-time celebrities who, for whatever reason, end up performing jobs our culture deems a mark of failure is gross, but hardly a new thing.

When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.

I love pressure in a different sort of way; I enjoy the pressure of getting out and performing for the public. Being compared and judged doesn't seem quite right to me.

The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists.

I never believed that my service in the U.S. Congress should become a permanent career.

Today, campaigning isn't an 'interruption' but a permanent condition. Indeed, if you are a successful campaigner, it's expected you'll be a successful president.

It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we're not even fighting?

Confidence comes in going on personal journeys in a public arena and feeling as though you have a right to do that. You have to give yourself permission to discover what you need to discover and not worry about how pretty the journey is. If you're aware of the pretty, you're not going to dig into the mess.

They have permission to play all the indoor games they want, but my daughters are not going to be competing in public sporting activities.

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

I definitely have a stage persona. I don't walk around scowling at people too often.

One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis.

You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then you're looking at a very long and lonely old age.

The Miz is someone who people are usually like, 'I can't believe how well he's doing. I can't believe this. I can't believe that.' But to me, he's someone who really always defined what it takes to becomes a successful public persona and in-ring entertainer, and to me, that's being authentic.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.