Former Quotes - Page 2

More than an actor, I am a performer. I'm a great believer

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.

Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.

Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part.

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

If you look at high performers they are always the most passionate - in any industry.

I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.

Top performers take action now, they move, they execute.

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

Most performers reinvent themselves. Madonna, Michael Jackson, P. Diddy. They reinvent themselves into different kinds of images. Elvis Presley was always himself, an original, and he never tried to be anything but that.

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

Something very rare in this day and age is to see performers do something that has never been done before.

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

Wife: a former sweetheart.

Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer.

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

Persecutors are almost always former Victims.

Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.