Entertainer Quotes

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

I'm from the point of view there's something important to deliver to the world. You can be an entertainer; I suppose I shouldn't be down on the idea of going to see a film for the hell of it, but there's too much of that. ~ Rob Nilsson

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

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

I love movies and I love art - and an architect is an entertainer, the guy who builds a rollercoaster is an entertainer. He knows where to build the slopes, and the big anticipation when you go up ... He makes you go, 'Oh my God!' when you get to the top before you come down. It's just the same as structuring a show or a dance. ~ Michael Jackson

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

The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas. ~ Paula Abdul

Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining. ~ Philip Treacy

GG Allin is an entertainer with a message to a sick society. He makes us look at it for what we really are. The human is just another animal who is able to speak out freely, to express himself clearly. Make no mistake about it, behind what he does is a brain. ~ John Wayne Gacy

I was an entertainer, ever since I was a kid. ~ Micky Dolenz

I try to encourage people to really love what they do, like when it's about being a part of this business [entertaining], love what you do because it's not going to always be defined by who you are. It's going to be a lot of times your good name walks in the door before you do. ~ Cedric The Entertainer

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

The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride. ~ Donny Osmond

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

Great.My brother was an entertainer and I was a sleeping pill. ~ Rachel Hawthorne

I'm not really an actress type. I'm an entertainer. ~ Susan Olsen

Jay-Z's a guy that wears the Che Guevara t-shirt and he doesn't realize Che Guevara was a racist. Che Guevara was a murderer and a killer. So look, he's an entertainer, obviously. He's not in the middle of any public discourse here. But I think it's important to point out when people take stances like this that are absurd. ~ Marco Rubio

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer. ~ Marlon Brando

Risking your own life in order to entertain others is the height of stupidity. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I treat him [Donald Trump] as an entertainer. I laugh it off. It's like going to the circus and seeing the acrobats and the dancing bears. He's willing to say things that are patently false. ~ Ted Cruz

I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician. ~ Miles Davis

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer. ~ Julian Clary

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

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

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer. ~ Pete Wentz

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

I have a hundred million fans, Angela, but I have very few friends. ~ Raynetta Manees

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

I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer. ~ Wayne Coyne

I'm not just a rapper. I'm an entertainer. That's the difference. ~ LL Cool J

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

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet. ~ Danny Kaye

I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to. ~ Danny Kaye

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

A hakawati is a teller of tales, myths, and fables. A storyteller, and entertainer. A troubadour of sorts, someone who earns his keep by beguiling an audience with yarns. Like the word "hekayah" story, fable, news, hakawati is derived from the Lebanese word "haki", which means talk or conversation. This suggests that in Lebanese the mere act of talking is storytelling. ~ Rabih Alameddine

My teacher said I would either be a hoodlum, or a great entertainer. ~ Rick James

I've always been an entertainer all my life; I come from a family of entertainers. I always made, very pretentiously, a comparison with Agatha Christie. Her inspiration was crime, and I'm sure she must have taken courses or read about crime, because it was the basis of her stories. But ultimately, it was her own fantasy. ~ Isabella Rossellini

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

Being an entertainer includes knowing how to connect with an audience. ~ Joe Nichols

The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you. ~ Dean Norris

Margaret's attention was thus called to her host; his whole manner as master of the house, and entertainer of his friends, was so straightforward, yet simple and modest, as to be thoroughly dignified. Margaret thought she had never seen him to so much advantage. When he had come to their house, there had been always something, either of over-eagerness or of that kind of vexed annoyance which seemed ready to pre-suppose that he was unjustly judged, and yet felt too proud to try and make himself better understood. But now, among his fellows, there was no uncertainty as to his position. He was regarded by them as a man of great force of character; of power in many ways. There was no need to struggle for their respect. He had it, and he knew it; and the security of this gave a fine grand quietness to his voice and ways, which Margaret had missed before. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell

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

I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting. ~ Jo Nesbo

No matter what I put out, somebody will be offended. I made a video on 10 reasons to smile, and it has dislikes. That should be an indication that there will be some who get offended no matter what you do. The best you can do as an entertainer or as someone who performs is to follow what you believe in. ~ Lilly Singh

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

I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes. ~ Duane Chapman

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

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

There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he's a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No. ~ George Best

I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate? Well, I'm not a scientist; I'm not an expert on environmental law; I'm a guy that can tell stories. So I always look for a way to communicate ideas and help to spread excitement for change. ~ Adrian Grenier

I don't call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don't just do one thing. ~ John Barrowman

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

I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk rock performer' and in the blues clubs I'd be a 'folk blues entertainer.' ~ Richie Havens

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

I had no intention of being an entertainer. ~ Don Ho

Growing up, the last thing I ever thought I'd do is be an entertainer. ~ Lyle Lovett

Oh, did I mention I'm a stripper?
Some dudes prefer "male entertainer" or "exotic dancer," but I call a spade a spade. I spend two nights a week shaking my crotch in happy women's faces and stripping down to a G-string. Ergo, I'm a stripper. ~ Sarina Bowen

I think it's a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone's an entertainer, they're automatically a role model. Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself. They're just doing their own version of entertaining. ~ Wentworth Miller

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

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

I've been blessed to have a long career. ~ Cedric The Entertainer

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

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller. ~ Bryce Courtenay

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

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

My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people like you, should you? ~ Oliver

An entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself. An artist is on a journey: they don't know where they're going, what is going to happen, but they know they are not there yet, and there is some continuity and growth. I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here, too. One who interprets his world through his own filter. ~ George Carlin

We have to focus on his early work, and just one or two of his movies, and elements of his TV shows, to keep his memory pure. People now know that Elvis could play a mean rhythm guitar himself, and needed no other musicians to perform a great song. But Elvis was not just a rock star, he was an all-round entertainer. ~ Pete Townshend

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

The mob loves those who amuse and serve it. But to amuse it you have to love it. I love no one, least of all the mob, because the mob, the multitude, are like women: they betray those who love them. ~ Pitigrilli

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

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

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

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

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

When you're singing, it can be looked at as a monologue, in a way. If it's about telling a story and connecting with your audience, you can do that through song, through dialogue, or through a monologue. That's what's special about being an entertainer. ~ Naturi Naughton

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

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

What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer. ~ Shane MacGowan

I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer. ~ Jimmy Dean

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

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

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

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

That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent! ~ Kurtis Blow

It was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking. These nights are accidental and statistical: Like lucky cards in poker, you can count on them occurring over time. What was hard was to be good, consistently good, night after night, no matter what the abominable circumstances. ~ Steve Martin

I am only a public entertainer who understands his time. ~ Pablo Picasso

Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Bruce Lee. ~ Tracy Morgan

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

I was always an entertainer. ~ Chad Michael Murray

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

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person. ~ Aaliyah

I am simply the very best sports entertainer ~ Shawn Michaels

I am an entertainer. Cinema is entertainment. It is nothing more than that. ~ Sunny Deol

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

Everything that I do is limitation and complete intuition. I'm a human being. I'm not a musician. I'm not an entertainer. I don't know anything! ~ Willis Earl Beal

I like Daughtry, I like Nickelback, I like Dave Matthews. I like Beyonce - she's a really good entertainer. ~ Grace Slick

Corruption hangs in the air around a great talent. Such a gift is unstable by nature, apt to embarrass its handlers. About her there is the whiff of the entertainer. Like vaudeville nipping the heels of grand opera. The maestro smells all this on Kathleen and cools his blood to a temperature undetectable by wild animals. ~ Ann-Marie MacDonald

Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer. ~ Rowan Atkinson

One Saturday morning last May, I joined the presidential motorcade as it slipped out of the southern gate of the White House. A mostly white crowd had assembled. As the motorcade drove by, people cheered, held up their smartphones to record the procession, and waved American flags. To be within feet of the president seemed like the thrill of their lives. I was astounded. An old euphoria, which I could not immediately place, gathered up in me. And then I remembered, it was what I felt through much of 2008, as I watched Barack Obama's star shoot across the political sky. I had never seen so many white people cheer on a black man who was neither an athlete nor an entertainer. And it seemed that they loved him for this, and I thought in those days, which now feel so long ago, that they might then love me, too, and love my wife, and love my child, and love us all in the manner that the God they so fervently cited had commanded. ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates