Quotes About Performer

I was an ordinary student at school and, at the same time, an actor. But I was not the popular kid, which helped me to play Peter Parker better.

Stunt work offers a diversity of roles and, while I'm used to anonymity, I really like showing off and performing in front of camera, though I know my limitations.

My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.

I definitely am a performer, and there are different styles of stand-up; I mean, some people are writers and they get onstage to get jokes out, and that's definitely not what I do. I like to just go up and, if I'm telling a story about someone, I'll play his or her part.

A. J. Styles is an incredible performer; very spectacular.

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

Im usually cast as the sassy, brassy best friend.

When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so.

Find me any performer anywhere who isn't egocentric. You'd better believe you're good, or you've got no business being out there.

Maybe there's just sexuality, and it's bendable and unpredictable, like a circus performer (...)

I had no ambition to become an actor at all.

Raffi is arguably the world's most famous children's singer.

For me, there's no dichotomy between being shy or a performer, because I think it's more a way of slightly presenting a version of things to the world.

Having done so many versions, I never felt like an artist in 'Swan Lake.'

People used to believe their life--or at least their life as a performer--was over at 28 or some ungodly age! God, when I think of myself back then, I had no idea who I was. I think I'm barely getting that under control now.

I always knew I wanted to be a performer, and my mother started taking me to dance classes when I was five. My mother is a teacher, my father works at an insurance company. When I said I wanted to be a performer, people went, "Yeah, right." You don't do that where I come from.

When I moved to the East Village in the late seventies, I wanted to be a street performer, so I practiced daily. I never did work up the skills or the courage to perform on the street, though.

Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives.

As an actor, I trust my ear.

I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.

Elvis was a great singer. He really was.

I'm in showbusiness. I'm an entertainer.

I was an entertainer, ever since I was a kid.

I was always an entertainer.