The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.
When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.
I see myself as an entertainer.
I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.
I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.
It's unfortunate that some people do not see what entertainers do in the background, but many of us do so much work with causes. You know some people have chewed me out, saying things like, "Oh why could you post pictures in your dresses and meanwhile they killing black men on the street?" I'm thinking, excuse me do you know what I did today? Do you know what I'm doing right now while I'm reading this post? So I think a lot of celebrities get a bad rap because people see the surface.
I'm probably the highest paid outdoor entertainer since Cleopatra.
There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.
I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.
I'm not a performer. If they're looking for entertainer-in-chief, I'm probably not the guy.
I'm in showbusiness. I'm an entertainer.
I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
I offer myself as a leader to the people of this country because I think they're looking for solutions, not lawyers arguing over laws or entertainers throwing out sound bites that draw media attention. We need to solve the problem.
Michael Jackson? He was something more (than one of my favorite entertainers), a true friend. He wasn't just a genius. Above all, he was a good person, who gave so much. He gave people values, he encouraged them to better themselves all the time. He was far deeper and more authentic than people could see. He was misunderstood too many times
The best teacher is an entertainer.
When you have this job [as an entertainer] you're suddenly not a person anymore.
If there's anything about the business that I love and that I'm extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here.
