#entertainer

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. ↗

— John Updike

#artists #behalf #content #distinguishes #entertainers

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#entertainers #frighten #guinea #guinea pig #hurt

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all. ↗

— Ice Cube

#entertainer #i #i love #just #like

I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment. ↗

— Alan Vega

#entertainer #entertainment #gonna #i #i always

What I'm saying is that, unlike a lot of portrayals of me, I'm not hiding behind the sunglasses. I'm out there working. I'm not trying to sell anybody anything, but I do realize we're entertainers. ↗

— David Duval

#anything #behind #entertainers #hiding #i

I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest. ↗

— Jared Harris

#australian #aware #being #called #children

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer. ↗

— David Antin

#debates #entertainer #entertainment #greece #paradoxical

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer. ↗

— Marlon Brando

#entertainer #least #most #poet

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer. ↗

— Julian Clary

#always #entertainer #entertainers #gay #had

It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others. ↗

— Naomi Judd

#decade #disability #entertainer #ever #feel