Lauren London
Actress
"I've always been a performer. That's just what I know."
Performers quotes
Performers
111 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
David Bowie
Musician, Actor
"I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much."
Richard Pryor
Comedian, Actor
"I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer."
Nat King Cole
Singer, Pianist
"The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things."
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"Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer."
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"George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved."
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"I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician."
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"I think most performers are just lazy."
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"She [Beyonce] is just an energetic performer and she loves drums. She loves edge."
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"What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing."
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"I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter."
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"As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do."
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"I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer."
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"Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer."
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"I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer."
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"Every performer wants to sing live. That's what I live for."
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"I can remember in the early 60s that there were a couple of really dynamic women performers at the time - Brenda Lee, there was Connie Francis."
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"The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me."
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"I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person."
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"All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream."
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