Entertainer Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Well, you know, my name is Ced and I kinda consider myself an entertainer. Hey that ain't bad yeah, Cedric the Entertainer.

Cedric The Entertainer

#3. An artist is somebody that puts themselves in a room, they're a wee bit self-indulgent and you know, sink into their music and it [will] be a very personal experience. An entertainer was somebody that took their God-given talent and shared it with people. And I've always wanted to be an entertainer.

Johnny Reid

#4. Being an entertainer includes knowing how to connect with an audience.

Joe Nichols

#5. My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer - the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.

Diana Ross

#6. I think touring is one fo the funnest parts of being a singer or entertainer or whatever.

Jhene Aiko

#7. Kermit was the Everyman, the original Tom Hanks, but I have a special place in my heart for Fozzie Bear. The classic borderline hacky entertainer.

Jason Segel

#8. Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.

Sonny Bono

#9. Like the Pied Piper, the street entertainer carries his own mystique which cannot easily be transferred to the stage. He seems to have escaped reality, to perform in a time and space where he doesn't necessarily belong.

Edward Claflin

#10. But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.

Javier Bardem

#11. I was born into the business. My mother was an entertainer. It was natural. But yes, in the next life, I might not do it.

Dina Lohan

#12. For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.

Debi Mazar

#13. Michael Buble is seriously my favorite entertainer. Have you ever seen the guy in concert? He's hilarious. Women love him. Guys want to meet him. He has everything that I wish I could do onstage. And I'm guessin' he's a good-lookin' guy - although he's not one of 'People' magazine's sexiest men.

Blake Shelton

#14. I've always been a family entertainer. Every show I have done has been suitable for any age - parents never need to worry that, if they pop out of the room, I'll say anything untoward.

Bruce Forsyth

#15. Everybody's just been spilling their guts all over records and talking about how hard it is to be an entertainer and how much we get hated on and what we have to go through. But I ain't really got it that bad. I'm just happy to be here.

Sean Combs

#16. It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

Francis Atterbury

#17. After several months of probation work, standing on my feet some ten to twelve hours a day, I decided that as a nurse I was a pretty good entertainer.

Kate Smith

#18. I'm a little of everything, a concerned dad, faith-based guy, businessman, entertainer and journalist. I don't have formal training as a journalist, but I think that works to my advantage.

Glenn Beck

#19. I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

B.B. King

#20. My teacher said I would either be a hoodlum, or a great entertainer.

Rick James

#21. An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer ... the artist has the superiorly searching perception with which that world outside of man's contamination can be penetrated and the truth drawn out from it.

Morris Graves

#22. I was always an entertainer.

Chad Michael Murray

#23. I am the entertainer, I've come to do my show You've heard my latest record, it's been on the radio It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.

Billy Joel

#24. An artist is one of two things: he is either a high priest, or a more or less smart entertainer. - GIUSEPPE MAZZINI

Leo Tolstoy

#25. When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism ... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

Jeff Dunham

#26. I'm not a star, I hate that word, and I'm an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I'm an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.

Bernie Mac

#27. I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.

Cher

#28. My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me, he was still a rock star.

Tracy Morgan

#29. I loved all fantasy, and I always thought that the ideal job as a performer and an entertainer would be to take on a mythical character, you know? Make someone up. Give them a voice, a mannerism, whatever. I always thought that that was the coolest way to do.

Erica Cerra

#30. I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

Bryan White

#31. I may or may not be the best fighter in the world but I want to be the best entertainer, so when you see my fights before and after, you'll remember my entrance and the fight. When I've walked in there, you'll know I've walked in there!

Dave Legeno

#32. You look in the mirror everyday and you see the same thing. As an entertainer, you wanna see something new.

Andre Benjamin

#33. I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

Pete Wentz

#34. I want to be a little more dramatic nowadays. I definitely want something big and funny, but I look for things that can just have people see me in a different light and let me mature as both an entertainer and an actor and a comedian.

Cedric The Entertainer

#35. I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

Adam Lambert

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

Julian Clary

#37. My dreams and aspirations when I was a child for as long as I can remember was to be an entertainer.

Brittany Murphy

#38. That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent!

Kurtis Blow

#39. I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

Wayne Coyne

#40. I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.

Chris Cornell

#41. When I was younger, I always wanted to be a musician, a performer and an entertainer - but I never thought about becoming a poster or anything like that. It's pretty cool.

Ross Lynch

#42. I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain ... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

Method Man

#43. I like to think that I'm a populist entertainer, but I'm a little bit idiosyncratic, and sometimes the networks wouldn't really roll with that.

Joss Whedon

#44. As a comedian, as an entertainer, there's a lot of downtime. Once you can accept that comedy is a marathon, not a sprint, it gets a little easier.

Iliza Shlesinger

#45. Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.

Russell Crowe

#46. Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.

Salma Hayek

#47. Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.

Rowan Atkinson

#48. I've been blessed to have a long career.

Cedric The Entertainer

#49. I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike ... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist.

ASAP Rocky

#50. It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.

Jon Landau

#51. Politics move, as fast as Twitter, and for everyone to think that in four years America was going to be perfect is ridiculous.

Cedric The Entertainer

#52. I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'.

Robert Redford

#53. Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.

Linda Ronstadt

#54. I play my life straight - the way I see it. I'm grateful to audiences for watching me and for enjoying what I do - but I'm not one of those who believe that a successful entertainer is made by the public, as is so often said.

Johnny Carson

#55. I see myself as an entertainer.

Ben Mezrich

#56. I'm definitely really shy on some level. But on another level, I'm all entertainer. It's a strange dichotomy, but it's true.

Leigh Bingham Nash

#57. The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films.

Arjun Rampal

#58. 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

#59. I never wanted to be a literary writer. I wanted to be an entertainer. All I wanted was to give what a lot of writers had given me: a good time on a bad day.

M.C. Beaton

#60. When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.

Natalie Portman

#61. I think he is an entertainer. I would prefer if he were a performer.

Carol Bellamy

#62. My goal is to be the best TV presenter, the best entertainer, the best singer. I still want to be the best dancer. I want to be the best at everything I do.

Anton Du Beke

#63. I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.

Ric Ocasek

#64. I don't recognize myself in the players I see today. There's only one who excites me, and that is Thierry Henry. He's not just a great footballer, he's a showman, an entertainer.

George Best

#65. What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer.

Shane MacGowan

#66. I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform anywhere, anytime. My parents were wonderful when I told them I wanted to be an entertainer.

Ken Dodd

#67. I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.

Zachary Levi

#68. You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.

Brendon Urie

#69. An entertainer's reputation as a live act is the most valuable thing he or she can have. If people know you give good shows, you'll never be broke for the rest of your life.

Chris Rock

#70. I'm an entertainer; I try to give the public what it wants while I'm on the screen, and I'm completely sincere about it. If I don't happen to be a laughing boy off the screen, that doesn't make me a hypocrite or a phony.

Johnny Carson

#71. Tonight, I would like to pay tribute to the greatest entertainer of all time, Mr. Elvis Presley. Elvis was Las Vegas. And if it wasn't for him, so many performers like myself would not have the chance to do what we do in this town. He really was the king.

Celine Dion

#72. I am simply the very best sports entertainer

Shawn Michaels

#73. My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans.

Gloria Estefan

#74. When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.

Scott Hamilton

#75. I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

Loretta Lynn

#76. I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for the world than I would if I were a soapbox orator or a self-made politician.

Liberace

#77. I'm a vulgar lounge entertainer, I don't need to wear a tie.

Craig Ferguson

#78. Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.

Cher

#79. An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

Kate Smith

#80. I'm an entertainer and I really enjoy entertaining. I think if you're going to really be what you say you are, you have to really live it, work it, practice it, and think it.

Bernie Mac

#81. In her book The Reluctant Entertainer, Sandy Coughlin writes, "Excellence is working toward an attainable goal that benefits everyone, while perfection comes from a place of great need - usually the need to avoid criticism and gain praise and approval from others.

Myquillyn Smith

#82. "The Entertainer" He did it all.

Sammy Davis Jr.

#83. I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

Ann Richards

#84. I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.

Erykah Badu

#85. When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

Kat Edmonson

#86. Last thing you want to do with a good movie is hold the audience hostage. As an entertainer myself, I just know it's better when you leave 'em wanting more than to stick around too long.

Simon Kinberg

#87. When people leave my show, I want them to say, 'I've never seen anything like that in my life ... It's amazing. He's the greatest entertainer in the world.'

Michael Jackson

#88. When I was growing up, I didn't do plays in downtown Boston, and my parents weren't putting me in auditions. They never thought, Oh, she has a gift! They never thought of me as an entertainer when I was a young kid.

Mindy Kaling

#89. According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an entertainer. I knew that from the start.

Vesta Williams

#90. I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.

Uday Kiran

#91. Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

Karen O

#92. Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer - for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

Sydney J. Harris

#93. I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.

Bryce Courtenay

#94. I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers, I've been in the magazines But if I go cold, I won't get sold I get put in the back in the discount rack Like another can of beans.

Billy Joel

#95. Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

Bobby Darin

#96. For a long time, I've distinguished between entertainer and performer and entertainer and artist. To me, an entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself.

George Carlin

#97. I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

Cam Newton

#98. His lover was a born entertainer who liked to kill things. How he wasn't in a psychiatric ward or on a Most Wanted list somewhere was anyone's guess.

Abigail Roux

#99. The best teacher is an entertainer.

Bob Keeshan

#100. I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it.

Cedric The Entertainer