Top 577 Performers Quotes & Sayings

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

As long as I can get Bobby Heenan in my corner, then I'm a happy man because, to me, Bobby Heenan is one of the most underrated performers of all time. He's in my top five of all time performers because I don't think people realize just how good he was.

Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.

Conductors are performers.

Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on. Since you must procrastinate anyway, decide today to procrastinate on low-value activities.

Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries.

Birds are the first and the greatest performers.

Even the prettiest performers and even the most handsome performers, when they get that opportunity, they still need to step up to the plate and deliver.

I firmly believe the industry does not let down performers.

It's hard for performers to grow old gracefully, but I'm trying.

I love working with talented young performers.

Some of the most powerful female performers I've seen balance the feminine and the masculine and are incredibly strong. Like, I think Hayley Williams is one of the best rock performers.

I'm usually put off by performers when they get political.

When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.

I have always had a performers instinct since I was a child.

That is what lower performers do; they make others wrong for doing what is necessary in order to make themselves feel okay about doing nothing! The highest performers-the winners-respond by studying successful people and duplicating success.

Triple H is one of the greatest in-ring performers of all-time.

Broadway performers are the best-trained people on the planet.

I was so fortunate to sing and work with so many amazing performers and artists.

Star performers are my favorite to manage and lead. Star performers are critical to any organization, and the key is how can you capture their heart-share and their mind-share when they're on this fast track.

They who are to be judges must also be performers.

Peak performers replace depletion with inspiration on a daily basis.

The difference between the top performers and the average or mediocre performers is not a great, massive difference. It is just a tiny difference because the top performers do things just a tiny bit.

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.

There are two types of people, two types of performers: Performers who know how to keep a show going literally when the power is gone and performers who haven't had that much experience and will panic and freak out and don't know what to do.

Great performers welcome pressure.

Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.

I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers

Bill Cosby is one of America's most successful black performers.

The hardest part about improv is getting the audience to relax and enjoy themselves, because most improv is not very good, and the audience is nervous for the performers the whole time. Not that they don't even like the show, but they feel bad for the performers.

Originally, what we call rock 'n' roll was nothing more than an attempt of very bad white performers to sound like black rhythm-and-blues performers. They did their best to emulate, they did their best to paraphrase. And that started what later became rock 'n' roll.

I'm usually put off by performers when they get political

I moved on to the University of California, Berkley, coordinating interpreters for Deaf students at the university. The first year I was at Berkley, we brought in artists, performers, actors, and poets to create a Deaf arts festival. I did a lot of the interpreting for the stage performers. By the second year, I realized that I really liked producing arts festivals that had to do something with signing.

I look at old performers like James Brown: back in the day when you actually had to work hard to get poppin'. I look at all those types of performers. Even like Kid n' Play and the Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff and Salt-N-Pepa. That era where they had to perform. You couldn't just rap. It had to be an entire performance.

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

I think most performers are just lazy.

It's brilliant there are so many writer-performers around.

Just as performers, I think you'd be an idiot not to utilize YouTube.

You need actors and performers, but there has to be content in a film.

I love to work with performers that are very different to me.

Most performers don't get a chance to sing in Los Angeles.

Top performers take action now, they move, they execute.

Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

I would not correct dancers if I was performing, because I don't believe in performers correcting other performers.

I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days when I came along.

The biggest possible thing that we're trying to do is change the conversation about what it means to be a working artist today, and hopefully, as the generation of performers that is training and listening to our show at the same time comes up, and becomes a working generation of performers listening to our show-hopefully that's going to change some of the ways they're looking at the hierarchy of theatre and start to blur those lines a bit more.

Only good performers get to work with me.

All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream.

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.

Film music has a great history of composers and performers.

We performers sacrifice so much for your entertainment.

I love fierce performers.

Just concentrate on the performers. Make sure you get the performers, and that's it. That's all we need to do." And I was thinking, "Well what if you do both? Of course the performance is important, the writing is really important. But what if you could have the perfect marriage of making it look really slick as well?" I think that's kind of what I tried to develop as a style, and Spaced was the first TV show I did where all the elements came together.

It's not my place to say if performers of quenelle should be punished.

There are two types of people, two types of performers: Performers who know how to keep a show going, literally, when the power is gone and performers who haven't had that much experience and will panic and freak out and don't know what to do.

The best results come when people believe in and feel strongly about the music they are playing. Just as composers write for certain types of performers, performers are also looking for certain things.

People want performers, personality and drama, and you got that in the .

True change is a long game, and it remains to be seen if this is change. We've had years before where there have been great years for filmmakers and performers of color, LGBTQ filmmakers and performers, women.

I wanted to be a performer, not someone who introduced other performers.