D. A. Pennebaker Quotes

I see myself as like the lead singer of a band or something.

Real entertainers love to entertain.

I feel like I'm an entertainer.

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

I'm a total performer.

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

My goal is to be the best TV presenter, the best entertainer, the best singer. I still want to be the best dancer. I want to be the best at everything I do.

I was always very dramatic - my family would probably use the word 'dramatic' - as a child; always putting on performances, making everyone come watch, and pay to watch. I was very business-savvy as a child.

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years.

I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.

I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.

Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

Anyone can learn a trick, but to make it entertaining, to put a presentation twist on it, and then to take it out there and really amaze people is a whole different ball game. You have to have some kind of a natural ability to do that, I suppose.

I think theater ought to be theatrical.

Usher is so innovative - he's a great performer, a great entertainer.

I'm a dreamer with lots of energy and a vivid imagination. That's the recipe for becoming an entertainer.

I'm a showman.

I'm a hardcore performer. The rest follows.

Growing up, I was so inspired by front men like Mick Jagger, Freddie Mercury, and Kurt Cobain - real showmen that put on 'a performance' every time they walk out on stage - so it's important for me to feel like I deliver that.

My job, if someone picks me, is to come and perform. That's what we do for a living.

What makes you a rock star is what are you able to do when you get behind that microphone, when you put that guitar in your hands, when you wield those drumsticks, and when you raise your hand in front of twenty thousand people: do they respond? That's being a rock star.

I believe in entertaining the audiences with whatever I do.

When I'm on stage I become a different beast.