By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.
I'm not like a performer type.
I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.
Variety shows didn't disappear; it was the caliber of the artists, the classic vaudevillians that have passed on. They are gone, so there's a different caliber performer that's come along that hasn't had the time to work in the small clubs and get the experience.
The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.
I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.
A performer learns with experience and with age. I did not know the future when I left home and started out to begin my career: I started qawaali; then I met Peter Gabriel and was exposed to a lot of new ideas.
I feel like, for me, I've become smarter. I've become a more intelligent wrestler. I've become a more intelligent performer, and I think that shows.
I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.
If a comedian has a strong following, and the branded segment feels different compared to what you typically do, people will know right away that it's not authentic to who you are as a comedian or performer. Brands need to keep that in mind.
Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor.
I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.
I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.
What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.
I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.
Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?
Co-writing the 'True Blood' comic is a dream come true both as a performer on the show and as longtime comic fan. It's a real privilege to build on the rapidly growing 'True Blood' mythology.
As a performer, I want to push my boundaries and try different roles.
I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.
I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.
I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.
When I got lucky with Dean, I ended up with 16 years with one of the truly great performers of all time. He was the greatest performer I'd ever been around, bar none.
At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer.
I think a lot of the fans want to see the high-flying action and be entertained. I don't think there is a better division out there than the cruiserweights to do that. It could be a pigeonhole for some, but at the end of the day, it's about whatever makes you happy as a performer.
I think I was about seven when people started telling my parents I would be an actor or a performer of some kind.
I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.
I love all genres of music. I think it helps you become a better performer if you know the different types of music.
If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.
My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.
Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'
I'm a performer. I've tried everything there is.
For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.
As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.
