Entertainers Quotes - Page 7

• I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

  Danny Kaye

  Play, Want

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• I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.

  Danny Kaye

  Wanted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don't just do one thing.

  John Barrowman

  Actors, One Thing

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, tv.avclub.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.

  Jared Harris

  Children, Dad, Father

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• We are not afraid to be entertainers.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Not Afraid

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• Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.

  Bob Hoskins

  Actors, Serious

  "Bob Hoskins obituary" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2014.

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• I'm probably the highest paid outdoor entertainer since Cleopatra.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Paid, Highest

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• I have started to realize that I am really just a world athlete and a world entertainer -- I am a world-known person, I am a global icon.

  Serena Williams

  Athlete, Icons, World

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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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• People tend to put entertainers on pedestals. We're human beings, just like you. You may see us smiling, and whether we have money or not, we still have bills to pay, we still have our stresses. I think a lot of people want to focus on others' shortcomings to make themselves feel better. And it's a very sad thing.

  Janet Jackson

  Stress, Feel Better, Thinking

  "Janet Jackson on body image, self-acceptance" by Alison Prato, www.cnn.com. November 29, 2010.

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

  Micky Dolenz

  Kids

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• I want to be a little more dramatic nowadays. I definitely want something big and funny, but I look for things that can just have people see me in a different light and let me mature as both an entertainer and an actor and a comedian.

  Cedric the Entertainer

  Light, Want Something, People

  "Comedian-actor Cedric the Entertainer". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 4, 2011.

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

  Chris Isaak

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• I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

  Kary Mullis

  Crowds, Bigs, Microphones

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• I never rule anything out. I'm an entertainer. Be it presenting, singing, acting, I just do things I love.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Singing, Acting, Things I Love

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

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• The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you.

  Dean Norris

  Art, Dad, People

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

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• Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

  Karen O

  Stars, Rocks, Way

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

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• I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.

  Cat Power

  Diamond

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think even before I knew I wanted to be a rapper, I wanted to be an entertainer. I was really into Michael Jackson as a kid.

  Chance the Rapper

  Kids, Thinking, Rapper

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• Michael Buble is seriously my favorite entertainer. Have you ever seen the guy in concert? He's hilarious. Women love him. Guys want to meet him. He has everything that I wish I could do onstage. And I'm guessin' he's a good-lookin' guy - although he's not one of 'People' magazine's sexiest men.

  Blake Shelton

  Men, People, Guy

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