Performers Quotes - Page 3

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

  Sarah Silverman

  Night, Comedy, Saturday

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• The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

  Johnny Cash

  Pride, Men, Giving

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• You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.

  Victoria Beckham

  Important, Saving, Remember

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• Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.

  Eric Liu

  Jobs, Couple, Men

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• Every performer wants to sing live. That's what I live for.

  Leona Lewis

  Want

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

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• As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Eye, Faces, Subtle

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• I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.

  Penn Jillette

  People, Contact, Products

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

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• I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

  Beth Ditto

  Gossip, Musician, Band

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• My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage.

  Beth Ditto

  Character, Bags, Tools

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• I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.

  Paloma Faith

  Girl, Vegas, Inspired

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• I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

  Paloma Faith

  Years, Age, Four

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• A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

  Renee Fleming

  House, Opera, Want

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• Although I'm predominantly known for game-shows, I do prefer to be known as a performer.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Games, Shows, Known

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• 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.

  Barbra Streisand

  Saws, Creeps, Wanted

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• There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

  Penn Jillette

  Jobs, Skills, Careers

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. June 8, 2010.

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• Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, Want, Entertainment

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a total performer.

  Aaliyah

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

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Denial, Deny, Form

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

  Adam Lambert

  Men, Years, Female

  "Adam Lambert Says Censorship of American Music Awards Song Would Be 'Discrimination'" by Daniel Kreps, www.rollingstone.com. November 23, 2009.

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• The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Pay, Affair, Feels

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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

  Beyonce Knowles

  Sexy, Fun, Sides

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• I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.

  Sting

  Helping, Fit, Help Me

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• The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

  Quincy Jones

  People, Black, Climate

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• For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

  Norah Jones

  Lines, Fine Lines, Fine

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• I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

  Elton John

  Thinking, Musician, Rock N Roll

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