#performers

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

Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#because #i #lonely #most #negative

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

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford. ↗

— Jamie Farr

#beginning #canadians #great #hockey #hockey players

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 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

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.' ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#back #back-up #get #go #i