I'm not a natural born performer.
Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out.
You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.
Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.
I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.
I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.
As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding. The most important thing for the performer is, after all, to create a special atmosphere - we enter the composer's feelings and emotions and recreate them freshly for a given audience.
I did feel from day one that I was a born 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.
It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
Every performer should learn a little bit of everything. Most performers today only play the guitar.
I'm a performer. We don't retire.
I'm growing as an actor and performer every week.
I'm very much a stand-up comedian in my heart. That's really what I do. Now I'm trying to incorporate all of the different elements of my work as a performer, and use it as a stand-up comedian.
She [Beyonce] is just an energetic performer and she loves drums. She loves edge.
You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.
My mom made me go to a Britney Spears concert when I was young. And I was like, 'No, I don't want to!' she was like, 'You're going to be a performer, you need to see other people. '
A high performer is someone who says, 'I want to be the best at what I'm doing. '
Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.