Definition of Performer

Performer

One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the harp.

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Performer Quotations

I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.
Lady Gaga

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.
Harry Houdini

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.
Harry Houdini

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.
Harry Houdini

I'm a total performer.
Aaliyah

I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.
Richard Pryor

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
Hedy Lamarr

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.
Sarah Silverman

I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level.
Deborah Cox

My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.
Paula Abdul

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.
Alison Krauss

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.
Alice Cooper

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?
Colin Firth

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
Cab Calloway

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Ted Williams

In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.
Frank Oz

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.
William Shatner

I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.
Sting

I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.
Kathie Lee Gifford

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.
Andy Goldsworthy

I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.
Mark Russell

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.
Patti LaBelle

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

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.
Eric Liu

There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces.
Evelyn Glennie

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.
Emilio Estevez

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.
Mel Torme

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.
Debbie Harry

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.
Mel Torme