#performer

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me. ↗

— Khandi Alexander

#comedy #done #enough #everything #feel

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. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#am #because #case #dull #essentially

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#gave #i #much #my own #never

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character. ↗

— Michael Richards

#character #envelope #free #go #i

There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there. ↗

— Michael Richards

#black #comics #country #deal #disturbance

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#does #doing #myself #particular #performer

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers. ↗

— Elton John

#craft #did #hard #hard work #learn

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

— Norah Jones

#between #fine #fine line #good #line

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants. ↗

— Norah Jones

#clubs #i #jazz #mickey #mickey mouse

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

— Quincy Jones

#black #business #climate #entertainment #entertainment business