Charismatic Performer Quotes

Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that either. But he was such a charismatic character that he was in the band anyway, as soon as he arrived. I was in charge for the first five minutes, but as soon as Bono got there, I was out of a job.

You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than your words.

Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best.

Elvis was a sweet darling, shy fellow, but he was really boring.

Celine Dion, she's magnificent. She has the voice of an angel.

I'm obsessed with Beyonce. She's just effervescent, I love her.

It was mostly an aura about him (Gene Kelly). For me he was Hollywood. The way I'd imagined it as a child.

My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.

I saw Danny Kaye in a movie, and he was doing voices and faces on that big, big screen and making whole audiences laugh. It was just an instant hookup.

Elvis had animal magnetism, he was even sexy to the guys, I can't imagine what the chicks used to think.

I'm a hard act to follow, because when I'm done, I take the microphone with me.

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.

Goldie Hawn is funny, sexy, beautiful, talented, intelligent, warm, and consistently sunny. Other than that, she doesn't impress me at all.

My character Jack in the New York Spring Spectacular is a lot of fun. He's playful, he's full of life. He can make things come to life. He can make things happen.

I have always admired Michael Jackson, and he's the one I get most inspiration from. I hope to become an artist like him as he won so many people's hearts and gave that love back to them through his music.

There isn't an audience in the world that Billie Joe can't command.

But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.

I don't think anything I could ever do could make Gene Kelly look better than he was.

She [ Anne Hathaway] is just a delicious talent. I think she can delight us for years and years in lots and lots of different things.Her own personality is so appealing and fresh and open and warm. I think she can have a unique career.

Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.

Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.

I'm a big fan of the young 1950s Elvis when he would just go onstage and control the whole environment.

The Rock is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most electrifying man in sports entertainment today.

I know him as Terry. Hulk Hogan has probably done more for wrestling than anybody has. He got Hollywood involved in wrestling. Hogan was a big guy, but that big ol' guy could move, and he knew how to get those people going. He had it all. He got pro wrestling to a whole new level.

I've never seen a performer create electricity with an audience like James Brown. He's got everybody in his hands and whatever he wants to do with them, he does it. It's amazing. I've always thought he was underrated.