Quotes About Expression

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever.

I think that those moments before a performer plays are the moments when the potential for something to be created may - or may not - arrive.

I think the actual art of expressing yourself is a very important part of being human. And an important part of being a performer is understanding what it's like to create yourself.

Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I'm writing. For 'Intimate Apparel,' I loaded Erik Satie, Scott Joplin, klezmer music, and the American jazz performer and composer Reginald Robinson.

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.

I've always been a performer.

As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.'

I look for stories that are different because that is how I will grow as a performer.

There's definitely a loneliness and, like, an internal element to being a performer.

I was a dancer and performer.

I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.

It's important to be out as a performer.

I have that inherent performer personality.

I was always a performer.

We can assume that for every 100 people who wanted to say something to their favorite performer, maybe only ten actually got out the stationery. And of those ten, maybe only four get the letter to the mailbox. So, out of all those fans, maybe only four percent are actually sending you anything. And maybe you have read it. Or not.

I would call myself a radio performer who has just jumped in front of the camera and is very happy.

Like, your body has to get used to being in front of people. Like - and you have to be like - you have to be kind of a ham, you know? Like, the thing about writers is they're generally self - comedy writers - self-loathing, sort of play small. And as a, like, performer, you have to think like a comedy writer but act like a performer.

I'm still a really shy performer and can't wear high heels and need to be with bare feet.

I'm an artist, a performer... There's an art to what we do to the wrestling... I don't want to really fight anybody.

It wasn't so much figuring out my voice comedically, because that was always pretty clear. It was more about performing and being a good, watchable performer.

I'm a performer, so when I get to any space, I make it my own for that moment and have fun.

I don't want to be just a performer.

I started as a pretty quiet kid and have had to evolve into a performer.

I want to be a successful trans woman burlesque performer.