Entertainers Quotes - Page 10

• I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform anywhere, anytime. My parents were wonderful when I told them I wanted to be an entertainer.

  Ken Dodd

  Childhood, Parent, Idyllic

  "Dodd's Bolton Bonus". www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. February 15, 2007.

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• My teacher said I would either be a hoodlum, or a great entertainer.

  Rick James

  Teacher, Said

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Feb 13, 2017

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

  John Barrowman

  Actors, One Thing

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, tv.avclub.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.

  Danny Kaye

  Wanted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Danny Kaye

  Play, Want

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• "The Entertainer" He did it all.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Tombstone

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• I think people have an idea in their heads about entertainers[and] celebrities. I think they feel like their lives are so perfect, and it's really hard to go through painful experiences when you are in the public eye because it's hard to have closure.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Dream, Eye, Thinking

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• It's something I've always wanted - to be known as an Australian. When I was younger I was always referred to as an Aboriginal tennis player. Now I think the award means that I have been recognised as an entertainer and that makes me happy... It's given me probably as big a kick as winning Wimbledon.

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley

  Sports, Mean, Winning

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• Tonight, I would like to pay tribute to the greatest entertainer of all time, Mr. Elvis Presley. Elvis was Las Vegas. And if it wasn't for him, so many performers like myself would not have the chance to do what we do in this town. He really was the king.

  Celine Dion

  Kings, Vegas, Towns

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• Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come from a very alive business leader, entertainer, artist or sports star. The most effective of these patrons begin the process of giving by asking what they care about passionately.

  Michael Milken

  Sports, Stars, Artist

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• I was born into the business. My mother was an entertainer. It was natural. But yes, in the next life, I might not do it.

  Dina Lohan

  Mother, Might, Next

  "Dina Lohan says she might like another shot at raising Lindsay", www.nydailynews.com. September 21, 2012.

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• 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

  Children, Dad, Father

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• We are not afraid to be entertainers.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Not Afraid

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

  Artie Shaw

  Music, Artist, Please

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• I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

  Kid Rock

  Believe, People, Mouths

  "Kid Rock Offers Views on Music Industry, Politics … and Oprah". www.cmt.com. August 22, 2008.

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• There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Weed, Women, Marijuana

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• Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or a tragedian plays for tears. Theirs is a new art form, exclusive to America and bewilderingly successful. In place of traditional conservative ideology, they offer their audience partisan belligerence and a complete package of mail-order hatreds, designed for the conceptually and ethically impaired.

  Hal Crowther

  Art, Successful, Order

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• 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

  Teacher, May, Wince

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?

  Dick Gregory

  Lasts, British, Heard

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• I've been a fan of Kenny Bob's for almost 20 years, and he's always made me laugh, and laugh hard! He is just, flat-out, a great entertainer!

  Bob Goen

  Years, Laughing, Fans

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• I have started to realize that I am really just a world athlete and a world entertainer -- I am a world-known person, I am a global icon.

  Serena Williams

  Athlete, Icons, World

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• I'm probably the highest paid outdoor entertainer since Cleopatra.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Paid, Highest

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• Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.

  Bob Hoskins

  Actors, Serious

  "Bob Hoskins obituary" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2014.

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• I can't say I ever wanted to become an entertainer. I already was one, sort of-around the house, at school, doing my magic tricks, throwing my voice and doing Popeye impersonations. People thought I was funny; so I kind of took entertaining for granted It was inevitable that I'd start giving little performances.

  Johnny Carson

  School, Voice, People

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

  Britt Ekland

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