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

When I got a networking event, I don’t see a crowd of strangers—I see an admiring audience waiting for me to perform so they can applaud me and throw me flowers and business. I always...

If I were a magician, I’d hand out broken compasses. It’s all about misdirection.

I’m not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It’s just not who I am.

I love Nelly. He’s such a great performer. He’s so hyper and so am I.

To perform you need practice, to practice you need passion.

A crowd of men stood in front of them. Of all ages, with expressions of sex-wonder in their eyes, gazing curiously as men who cannot solve a mystery that populates graveyards and through the ages...

I knew I wanted to be a performer, but I didn’t know I would specifically be in film. I actually never thought I would be in film. I always envisioned being on the stage.

My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.

I wouldn’t say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

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

I don’t want to be the oldest performer in captivity… I don’t want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.

The schizophrenic in the sleeping bag with a live chicken and a can of tomato soup spilling onto the sidewalk had no right to steal my street performance.

I’m still learnin’. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

I’m not like a performer type.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

I put the sing in single—especially when I’m in the shower. Does anybody have any requests they’d like to shout out while the water’s getting hot? As always, silence all cell phones during the duration...