Street Performer Quotes

#1. Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

Denis Lavant

#2. I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you!

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#3. When I moved to the East Village in the late seventies, I wanted to be a street performer, so I practiced daily. I never did work up the skills or the courage to perform on the street, though.

Steve Buscemi

#4. I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

R. Kelly

#5. Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor.

Emilio Estevez

#6. My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.

R. Kelly

#7. I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.

Criss Angel

#8. As a street performer, I have learned that everybody wants to connect. And that usually, if you're a bit extraordinary, if you're not exactly of human appearance, then people will feel inclined to participate and to feel out loud. It's as though you made something resonate within them.

Natasha Tsakos

#9. I was a street performer for two years.

Bernie Mac

#10. No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

R. Kelly

#11. Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

Madeleine L'Engle

#12. I often went entire days without speaking - unable to get a word in over my inner taskmaster, who never shut up: You fat, disgusting slob, you'll never be thin enough, good enough, smart enough, tough or talented enough.

Aimee Liu

#13. To me, I think the core values that will help create the world that we're striving to live in are constant.

Maya Harris

#14. The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

Elvis Costello

#15. For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.

Don DeLillo

#16. Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

David Lloyd George

#17. NASA should start thinking about this planet.

Wally Schirra

#18. It's never easy playing 36 holes when you are concentrating so much for all the shots.

Lydia Ko

#19. Certain days I think definitely because we went in there and we got Saddam and that was our mission. On other days, we lost so many lives and so many brothers and sisters ... on that aspect, no.

Jessica Lynch

#20. I have a regular, normal private life.

Francois-Henri Pinault

#21. Patience is the inclination to control the racing mind, which wants to jump ahead.

Balroop Singh

#22. We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

Ma Jun