The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.
Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.
The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it's not easy for me.
I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.
You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately.
People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.
I auditioned for a play in fifth grade, and that's when I knew that I wanted to be a singer and performer.
No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.
Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.
Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.
Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.
My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.
For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.
The high point for me in my career was when Sinatra called me his favourite performer in the Fifties. And I've been sold out ever since.
Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.
And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with.
On stage, don't go near her. She's the best performer in the world.
Every performer wants to sing live. That's what I live for.
If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.
For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
If a thing is going to represent you, your vision, you should be involved in every aspect of that thing. I like my role as executive producer on anything probably as much as performer.
I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.
I wouldn't say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.
When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good.
I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I do worry about the blurring of an author's public persona with the work itself. A good 'performer' can make a mediocre book sound strong, and a shy author can leave listeners missing the excellence of his or her writing.
In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.
I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.
I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.
I'm pretty straightforward as a performer, but I do have a bit of a diva in me.
Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.
No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.
I'm not a natural performer: I have a natural stage fright.
There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.
I used to be naive. I didn't realize the value of being a whole performer... People start to care about you when they know more about you and see different aspects of your personality.
A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.
