Quotes About Performer

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.

I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude – which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with having theater and other non-club venues, as well as the audience being filled with other artists. It's nice to be with other comics, as usually at other road gigs, I'm solo for the most part.

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.

For me, as a performer or a songwriter, Stevie Nicks is always a huge inspiration as well as Iggy Pop.

I used to be a pop singer; well, not used to be. I am an R&B singer. My emphasis was on Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan and Aretha Franklin.

I want the legacy of Chi Chi Devayne to be a damn good performer that came from nowhere and took the world by storm.

I don't see myself as an actor. I see myself as a storyteller.

I'm pretty straightforward as a performer, but I do have a bit of a diva in me.

I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

I have an older brother who is an actor as well.

It was one of the things that used to be on my rider when I would do my shows. I would always ask for a Klondike bar.

I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.

The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience.

I think an artist can fit under a few different categories depending on how much you explore your creativity. It can vary from artist to artist from musician to performer to vocalist. I thrive on creativity. So in the long run I want to be an all around entertainer.

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.

Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.

I may be a vain person, but I'm not a vain performer.

I can make a valid argument that Bobby Heenan is pro wrestling's great performer.

I have music. Music is the world inside me. I am a performer, but whether or not I perform, the music is there.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.