#performers

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#circuit #concerts #european #house #least

I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#bobby #bobby darin #cooke #darin #great

The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?' ↗

— John Malkovich

#collectively #compelling #evocative #group #how

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch. ↗

— Adrian Grenier

#people #performers #put #shows #want

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater. ↗

— John Hurt

#competitive #fewer #get #greater #i

Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away. ↗

— Andy Kaufman

#away #boring #egotistical #entertainment #hold

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired. ↗

— Marc Maron

#acquired taste #always #been #handful #i

My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obviously busy in the box. But I'm told that children of television performers grow up thinking that all mommies or daddies work on TV and that it's no big deal. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#big #big deal #book #box #busy

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#comedians #cooper #endearing #getting #like

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#earnings #family #family members #half #members