Performers Quotes

The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.

More than an actor, I am a performer. I'm a great believer

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

Something very rare in this day and age is to see performers do something that has never been done before.

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

Top performers take action now, they move, they execute.

I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.

They who are to be judges must also be performers.

Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer.

It's actually good when the performers are nervous, because it kind of sharpens up your brain and a little bit of adrenaline is good. Initially it's really tough.

The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.

I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.

Shawn Michaels is quite simply the greatest performer in WWE history.

Broadway is not just the song and the shows; it's the individual performers and the community.

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

Peak performers replace depletion with inspiration on a daily basis.

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.

We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.

To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you're doing and insanely confident about your ability to pull it off.

Every performer should learn a little bit of everything. Most performers today only play the guitar.

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

I sought a great performer who would deeply impress me, and I found Lior Suchard.

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

I'm a total performer.

Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

I think Elvis loved his fans - I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious and sensitive to the fact that performers love them.

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.

I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.

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

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.

As a performer, I could be like, "I don't want to leave that in there." But as a producer, I have to leave it in there.

I'm honored to be in a position to have young girls or performers look up to me.

I think most performers are just lazy.

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.