Entertainer Quotes

#1. It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.

Walt Disney Company

#2. I think even before I knew I wanted to be a rapper, I wanted to be an entertainer. I was really into Michael Jackson as a kid.

Chance The Rapper

#3. I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.

Fleur East

#4. What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

James Taylor

#5. I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of 'Performance' called 'The Entertainer' with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.

Helen McCrory

#6. You learn fast from others how to be an entertainer as well as a musician; you don't necessarily have to get out there and just play - you can be an entertainer, too.

Les Paul

#7. I'll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer. I want to do a good show. My entire character has changed.

Uri Geller

#8. I am an entertainer. Cinema is entertainment. It is nothing more than that.

Sunny Deol

#9. I created this picture of this character who would play the guitar effortlessly, who had no limitations, performing beautiful music, and he moved around with great acrobatic skills, just capturing the audience and being a great entertainer.

Steve Vai

#10. As an entertainer, my job is to help people have fun.

Gloria Estefan

#11. I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.

Jessica Simpson

#12. I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.

Annie Lennox

#13. An enlightened entertainer, via story, casts her line into the souls of others, hooks their heart, and pulls their greater potential to the surface.

Derek Rydall

#14. I don't consider myself an interviewer as much as an entertainer.

Ellen DeGeneres

#15. 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

#16. Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the 'book lady' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I've done something good with my life and with my success.

Dolly Parton

#17. I will do my best to entertain. That's what I am: an entertainer.

Britt Ekland

#18. I never rule anything out. I'm an entertainer. Be it presenting, singing, acting, I just do things I love.

Martine McCutcheon

#19. I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

Steve Coogan

#20. Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.

Michael Buble

#21. My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.

Dan Fogelberg

#22. I am positive - determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person.

Jennifer Lopez

#23. Who would have ever thought that I'd end up saying that I want to be an all-around entertainer? But that's what I want to be.

Roger Daltrey

#24. I'm not just a rapper. I'm an entertainer. That's the difference.

LL Cool J

#25. I've got a lot to do, and I hope that by the end of it all, people will say that Dee Snider was an entertainer, and he did his job well.

Dee Snider

#26. In every language you can imagine, I've had people say 'Appetite For Destruction' is the soundtrack to their lives. I don't think you could say something nicer to an entertainer or performer - can't get more respectful.

Steven Adler

#27. I felt like for what I needed, Bad Boy got me ... they got me covered. Especially Puff, man. He's going to be the first billionaire rap entertainer. At the end of the day, they need me. Other artists-labels don't need me, but Bad Boy and Puff needs me. And I need them. It goes both ways.

French Montana

#28. I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

Aaliyah

#29. I'm not a performer. If they're looking for entertainer-in-chief, I'm probably not the guy.

Jeb Bush

#30. I had no intention of being an entertainer.

Don Ho

#31. Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer.

Ethel Waters

#32. I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.

Robbie Williams

#33. Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh's whole thing is entertainment. Yes, it is incendiary. Yes, it is ugly.

Michael Steele

#34. I'm just another Opry entertainer. I'm not the start of the Opry, and I'm not the ending. I'm not the Alpha, and I'm not the Omega. It's been a pleasure taking part in the Opry and country music these many years. I'm part of a big operation.

Roy Acuff

#35. I think I'm needed - as an artist, as an individual, as an entity, an enigma, an exhibitionist, an entertainer - as an alternative.

CeeLo Green

#36. I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.

Alessia Cara

#37. I think an artist can fit under a few different categories depending on how much you explore your creativity. It can vary from artist to artist from musician to performer to vocalist. I thrive on creativity. So in the long run I want to be an all around entertainer.

Christina Aguilera

#38. I'm an entertainer, not a commentator. If you're a comedian your job is to make people laugh.

Johnny Carson

#39. First and foremost, Tendulkar is an entertainer and that for me is as important factor as any fact or figure. Too often boring players have been pushed forward as great by figures alone. For sheer entertainment, he will keep cricket alive.

Barry Richards

#40. When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.

Gabe Kaplan

#41. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

Artie Shaw

#42. I worked in Trenton, and then I got sidetracked into comedy and then onto 'SNL.' And then into being a live performer - what I do now; virtually that's what I am: I'm a live entertainer.

Joe Piscopo

#43. When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.

Loudon Wainwright III

#44. I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

Danny Kaye

#45. When God wants me to lose, then that's when I'll lose. But until then, I'm going to be at the top of my game and keep working hard anddedicating myself to the sport of boxing and to being the best entertainer that I can be.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#46. I'm in showbusiness. I'm an entertainer.

Chris Isaak

#47. Realistically I know I'm an entertainer. When you're exciting, you're remembered.

Johny Hendricks

#48. I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I'm just an entertainer.

Elvis Presley

#49. If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.

G. Gordon Liddy

#50. If there's one thing that I love as an entertainer, it's a spectacle. We all have looked up to either Michael Jackson or Madonna or Janet Jackson or anyone of those things. When I was in *N SYNC, I would watch any concert video ever and really drink it all in.

JC Chasez

#51. I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through.

Natalie Cole

#52. Entertainer of the Year, to me, there's never been any question that that's one on my bucket list that I want. I'm not going to sit here and lie to you. If there's one that I ever could get - I would trade all the rest of them in for that one.

Jason Aldean

#53. In the strict sense I would not call him a writer at all." ( ... ) Crabbin said, "He was just a popular entertainer."
"Why the hell not?" Martins said fiercely.
"Oh well, I merely meant ... "
"What was Shakespeare?

Graham Greene

#54. No other entertainer in the world ever took the risks that Liberace took.

Robin Leach

#55. I'm the world's greatest wrestler, the world's greatest singer, the world's greatest entertainer.

Jeff Jarrett

#56. I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.

Miles Davis

#57. The type of person that might thrive on Vine in a six-second clip might not be the same kind of entertainer who would shine on a 10-minute vlog on YouTube. If anything, having these different platforms gives more people a chance to creatively express themselves.

Tyler Oakley

#58. When you judge your art with number of likes you get in response to it, you're killing the artist within, and giving rise to an entertainer.

Sameer Khan

#59. I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing 'Grease' songs and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in their living room. I was always an entertainer, and I would always do all that stuff, but it slowly evolved into a career, which is great, but it wasn't a plan.

Zoe Kravitz

#60. I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.

Pablo Picasso

#61. I would love to do Broadway the rest of my life! Because it's challenging, because it makes me grow as an actor, as an entertainer, as an artist, and that's what I need; that's what I'm hooked on.

Ricky Martin

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

Alan Vega

#63. Audiences have proved time and again that they don't want a steady diet of any entertainer airing his social views - especially if he's a comedian.

Johnny Carson

#64. I'm not really an actress type. I'm an entertainer.

Susan Olsen

#65. When you talk about the world's greatest entertainer you have to say Al Jolson because there was no one like him. Only Judy Garland and perhaps Frank Sinatra got anywhere near him!

Jack Benny

#66. I think from the time I was a kid I've been an entertainer. I've always had the ability to play characters. When I came to California, I was overwhelmed that you could do this and get paid for it, make a living on it, and be creative within this art form.

Matt Schulze

#67. I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.

Peter Jackson

#68. As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.

Lea DeLaria

#69. Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

Charley Pride

#70. I want be an entertainer that doesn't just work in one specific field, but a variety of things. If I become an artist that influences people in many different directions and aspects, I think I would be satisfied for having achieved my biggest goal.

Min

#71. I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities of R&B music in the '70s and '80s, will continue to be one of the most recognized and formidable human beings that we've ever produced in our tradition.

Michael Eric Dyson

#72. Stand-up is my heart and now I get a chance to do that and the music altogether. That's going to be great. I'm trying to be the Sammy Davis Jr. of 2005. I'm planning on going out with Cedric the Entertainer because he's got that musical bone, too.

Jamie Foxx

#73. I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.

Jimmy Dean

#74. When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.

Natalie MacMaster

#75. Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.

Iman

#76. School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.

Djimon Hounsou

#77. The great times are when you put a game on location and see others play it for the first time. After all, we are really kind of an entertainer. You perform for the joy of the audience.

Eugene Jarvis

#78. The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

Andrew Eldritch

#79. I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along.

Julie London

#80. I was one of the first artists to make a buzz about '106 & Park.' If it wasn't for that show, I wouldn't be the entertainer that I am today.

Bow Wow

#81. When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

J. Tillman

#82. I like Daughtry, I like Nickelback, I like Dave Matthews. I like Beyonce - she's a really good entertainer.

Grace Slick

#83. I was an entertainer, ever since I was a kid.

Micky Dolenz

#84. I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years.

Jerry Lewis

#85. As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.

Corey Feldman

#86. My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

Bryce Courtenay

#87. My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.

Laila Ali

#88. I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.

Coolio

#89. I always refer back to the days of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, the Rat Pack. Back when everyone wore a suit because that's what it was to be an entertainer. You were stylish and you were fly, and it was an effortless fly.

Ne-Yo

#90. I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

Bruce Sterling

#91. Being a professional wrestler was never one of my goals in life. I always wanted to be some kind of entertainer. I used to want to be a rock singer or a guitar player but I can't sing and I can't play the guitar.

Ric Savage

#92. I want to move people; it's not about me. I have been given the gift of being an entertainer. I love getting to touch people's lives.

Bethany Joy Lenz

#93. It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.

Holly Near

#94. I can't tell stories to save my life. I like to have fun, and I go out and have a lot of fun. But I'm not really an entertainer that way. I'm much more shy.

Marisa Tomei

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

Ice Cube

#96. 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

#97. I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown.

Mark Linkous

#98. I'm an entertainer. Not a journalist or spokesman for anybody. Truth is, a lot of my listeners absolutely hate what I have to say.

Neal Boortz

#99. I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

Christina Aguilera

#100. You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.

Mel Tillis