Entertainers Quotes - Page 6

• I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.

  Zachary Levi

  Believe, Support You, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the superiorly searching perception with which that world outside of man's contamination can be penetrated and the truth drawn out from it.

  Morris Graves

  Men, Artist, Design

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• As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.

  Justin Bieber

  Artist, Perfect, Crafts

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• I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.

  Cher

  Thinking, Singers, Best Place

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• I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.

  Chris Cornell

  Real, People, Musician

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• As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.

  Corey Feldman

  Guy, Comedy, Percent

  "The Two Coreys: Together again!". Interview with Mandi Bierly, ew.com. July 19, 2006.

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• Richard Lewis has this incredible ability to look like he's just... you know it's an act that's been honed. What you have to do in standup is create spontaneity, somehow; even though you've done this act a million times, you gotta look like you're almost just thinking of it now, to make it entertainer.

  Artie Lange

  Thinking, Looks, Done

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• What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

  James Taylor

  Humorous, People, Interesting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I haven't traditionally been a family entertainer.

  David Walliams

  Havens

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

  Rachel Weisz

  Actors, Storyteller

  "I'm a storyteller. I don't save lives". www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2005.

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• I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.

  Robbie Williams

  Song, Light, Doors

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• I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of Black identity, and the possibilities of R&B music in the '70s and '80s will continue to be one of the most recognized and formidable human beings that we've ever produced in our tradition.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Thinking, Black, Identity

  "Georgetown University professor Dr. Michael Eric Dyson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 30, 2009.

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• I think there's no question that Michael Jackson was the foremost entertainer of his generation; perhaps of all time, arguably, taking the skills of a Sammy Davis, Jr., bringing together the street dance of African American urban culture, joining them to the politics of dance, of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly on that sphere alone.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Thinking, Skills, African American

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. June 30, 2009.

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• Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also a man of deep sympathy and empathy for those who are lost and vulnerable, but especially under-educated youth of all cultures and stripes.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Men, Empathy, Stripes

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• Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Natural Talent, Skills, Mastery

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• Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my thoughts, have me for your companion, confidant, and information bureau? What do you take me for? Am I an entertainer on salary, required every evening to play an intellectual farce under your stupid noses? Am I a slave, bought and paid for, to crawl on my belly in front of you idlers and lay at your feet all that I do and all that I know?

  Henry Miller

  Stupid, Play, Feet

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• Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

  Barack Obama

  Athlete, Role Models, Roles

  "Obama Remarks on Math, Science and Technology Education". www.washingtonpost.com. November 23, 2009.

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• There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story" "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer.

  William S. Burroughs

  Writing, Psychics, Plot

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.169, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.

  Ned Vizzini

  School, People, Able

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• Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Teacher, May, Wince

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• I've been a fan of Kenny Bob's for almost 20 years, and he's always made me laugh, and laugh hard! He is just, flat-out, a great entertainer!

  Bob Goen

  Years, Laughing, Fans

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• Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or a tragedian plays for tears. Theirs is a new art form, exclusive to America and bewilderingly successful. In place of traditional conservative ideology, they offer their audience partisan belligerence and a complete package of mail-order hatreds, designed for the conceptually and ethically impaired.

  Hal Crowther

  Art, Successful, Order

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• There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Weed, Women, Marijuana

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• My teacher said I would either be a hoodlum, or a great entertainer.

  Rick James

  Teacher, Said

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Feb 13, 2017

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• I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform anywhere, anytime. My parents were wonderful when I told them I wanted to be an entertainer.

  Ken Dodd

  Childhood, Parent, Idyllic

  "Dodd's Bolton Bonus". www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. February 15, 2007.

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