Quotes About Performer

Will Ferrell in 'Talladega Nights.' He's a very generous performer. He's kind of just one of the guys, but his name happens to be above the title.

I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.

I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be.

Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time.

I'd hate to be a writer forever and never perform, and I'd hate to perform and not write. I get sad if time has passed and I haven't written or made anything. I'm an artist.

street performer and, in his own words, apprentice gigolo,

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

Doing something that is your passion, in my case related to music and art, being a performer playing shows around the world, that is a dream come true.

Essentially, I am an actor for hire. I am not a rarified creature. I do all these different things, and they all interest me.

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

When I'm in London, it feels like I am that character who is 'Tom Odell.'

You have got to act on instinct; you've got to ride from your heart and let that performer come out. You can't over-think it too much because if you're thinking, the race is already over.

I don't see why I should be ashamed of my body. That's the one tool I use as a performer.

Superwoman is more of a performer, which Lilly isn't. Having said that, I guess both of them are completely over the top, dramatic and full of energy.

I'm a total performer.

Ryan [Gosling] has a history with the Mickey Mouse Club. He was a child performer himself. And he took the time to get to know people.

There's always down time when you're an actor, especially a character actor.

I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.'

Presley was given laxatives and enemas on an almost daily basis. "I carried around three or four boxes of Fleets," Nichopoulos says, referring to the enema brand and recalling his days on tour with Presley. Getting the timing right was, he says, "a difficult balancing act." Presley sometimes did two shows a day, and Nichopoulos had to schedule the administration such that the treatments didn't kick in while the singer was on stage.

I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.