Entertainers Quotes - Page 3

• The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

  John Updike

  Artist, Risk, Excess

  John Updike (2012). “Assorted Prose”, p.189, Random House

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• A man can’t have too many guitars or too many shotguns.

  Robert Earl Keen

  Men, Guitar, Weapons

  "Guitar Whispering". Interview with John Seabrook, www.newyorker.com. November 16, 2009.

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• You don't get into magic. Magic gets into you.

  David Blaine

  Magic, Illusionists, Magic Tricks

  Interview with Clark Collis, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2002.

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• A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.

  Walt Disney

  Communication, World, Limitless

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• I got to meet some of the best people I've ever met, and we all grew as people and as entertainers.

  Carrie Underwood

  People, Mets, Grew

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• I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.

  Jessica Simpson

  Respect, Would Be, Therapists

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• I'm definitely really shy on some level. But on another level, I'm all entertainer. It's a strange dichotomy, but it's true.

  Leigh Bingham Nash

  Shy, Levels, Strange

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.

  Coolio

  Responsibility, Thinking, Soldier

  Bopgraphy/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

  Bobby Darin

  Guy, Show Me, Shows

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• But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.

  Javier Bardem

  Art, Doing Me, Actors

  "'Why am I doing this absurd job?'". Interview with Kristin Hohenadel, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2001.

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• As an entertainer, my job is to help people have fun.

  Gloria Estefan

  Jobs, Fun, People

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• I am positive - determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mother, Baby, Jobs

  "Jennifer Lopez Gives Vanity Fair Her First Interview Since Announcing Her Divorce From Marc Anthony". Vanity Fair Interview, www.vanityfair.com. August 2, 2011.

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• Realistically I know I'm an entertainer. When you're exciting, you're remembered.

  Johny Hendricks

  Exciting, Remembered, Knows

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• Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.

  Desi Arnaz

  Als

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• The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

  Andrew Eldritch

  England, Hard

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• What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer.

  Shane MacGowan

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• I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

  Loretta Lynn

  Country, Years, Firsts

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.10, Vintage

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• There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

  Charley Pride

  Giving, Special, Intimacy

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.

  Peter Bart

  Attitude, Gay, Velvet

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• We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

  Eartha Kitt

  Gay, Color, White

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• I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along.

  Julie London

  Thinking

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• What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.

  Mary Stuart Masterson

  Character, People, Interesting

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• The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

  Julian Clary

  Gay, Affection

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• When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.

  Natalie Portman

  Years, Grandpa, Funeral

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