#entertainers

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'? ↗

— Dick Gregory

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We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

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We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

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I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers. ↗

— Steve Martin

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Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

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That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity. ↗

— Gloria Gaynor

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Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage. ↗

— David Bowie

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But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do. ↗

— Solomon Burke

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I got to meet some of the best people I've ever met, and we all grew as people and as entertainers. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

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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

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