I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

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

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

For me the voice is the most important, but making your singing believable makes a great performer.

I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

Objectivity is almost a choice you make. As a burlesque performer, I didn't choose to be objectified.

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

I always hate when, like, my favorite performer has a boring moment. Especially when they got mad hits.

No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

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

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

But I like the process of putting a show together and the impact that Edinburgh has on me as a performer.

I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

The Ric Flair, I am his teacher from the Minnesota. We work together. He great performer, he great talker.

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

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

I'm a performer. I'm pretending to be someone else. I'm not putting my own self into the show every night.

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

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

I intend to keep reinventing myself both as a performer and also in terms of my looks for as long as possible.

It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.

I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.

I do like Jason Statham as a person and as an actor. I think he's a great performer, and he delivers every time.

I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

The confidence in my ability to be a performer, a steeliness about survival... I learnt all those things from my dad.

There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.

If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?

Working with Lucha and Mexico and all the independent wrestling I've done has made me an exponentially better performer.

As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.'

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

Costumes are great. That kind of effort tells the audience that the performer has taken the time to be the total package.

Honestly, I'm a shallow performer. I just go with the text and feel my way around it. There's not a whole lot of shaping.

I remember I had a boyfriend a long time ago who said, 'You need to change your name; you sound like a circus performer.'

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, 'You are so brave.'

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