Street Performers Quotes

• Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Dancer, Actors, World

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• 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

  Mother, Father, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Beach, Venice, Apollo

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Expression, Dancer, Firsts

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• 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

  Television, Stage, Tricks

  Criss Angel (2009). “Mindfreak: Secret Revelations”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!

  Camryn Manheim

  Venice, Pockets, Crafts

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• 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

  Travel, Adventure, Night

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• I was a street performer for two years.

  Bernie Mac

  Years, Two, Streets

  "Actor, comedian and exasperated dad Mac dies at 50" by Frazier Moore, www.washingtonpost.com. August 9, 2008.

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

  R. Kelly

  Chicago, Streets, Paid

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm interested in confronting police brutality and police abuse of cracking down on street performers and street artists, but also in valorizing street art as legitimate performance within the artistic sphere, where it's so often conflated with pan-handling and begging and not "successful" art. I want to change laws around street performance.

  Kalan Sherrard

  Art, Successful, Law

  "'Hyper subtle sexual ego'". Interview with Peter Nowogrodzki, logger.believermag.com. June 4, 2014.

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