Performing Quotes

I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family.

If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed.

When I am performing, I try to follow the advice I give to my students. This can be very hard - I was never a good student and I find I'm no better when I am the teacher.

I was performing from the age of three.

I grew up always wanting to be a dancer and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways.

I know something about performing. I know that when it seems like the avalanche is about to roll over you, you face into it and keep both arms swimming as hard as you can. You smile and you sell it.

Playing in front of 25,000 people and millions more on television, and performing and doing what I worked so hard to try to accomplish was, in my opinion, the ultimate. Do I miss it? Of course I do.

Performing for the Dalai Lama - those are words I never imagined coming out of my mouth.

I love performing, and it allows me to be very discerning about what I choose next, thank god.

Performing in front of a live audience can be pretty intimidating, so having a full head of hair was important to me.

My home is at the WWE. I truly do love performing. The atmosphere here isn't like anything else. It's truly where I belong.

It's not quite the same as other kinds of performing, but I love animation. It is just a different kind of experience. The difference is that making a live action movie you are using your whole body.

When I started performing I was like, "Holy hell, how am I going to survive this?" I was giving it my all in 15 minutes but now I had to do it for two hours.

[Brad Furman] wants to try stuff, he's willing to try stuff. And he wants electricity on the camera. And that's what I want, I want electricity whenever I'm performing.

I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.

The greatest ally you have to get things working well and the players performing as a team is the bench. Don't be afraid to use it, either for the star player or anyone else.

Justin Di Cioccio led a jazz program at Music and Art, but there was no jazz in Performing Arts. After they joined, it became Laguardia School of Arts.

When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.

So much of performing is a mind game.

I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.

I always tweet about where we're at. Since I'm performing at amphitheaters, I'll try to run up and down the stairs and across the field.

I love doing sitcoms and I love performing in front of a live audience, so [Payne] was a really fun experience.

I love intimacy, always, of performing.

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm so glad I did. I knew lots of people who'd gone there, so I always had my mind set on it.

I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

I love every aspect of the performing arts and can't imagine myself doing anything different. I give my heart to every project.

I mean, there's definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. But at the same time, it's just performing. No matter what, it's performing.

For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless.

I love doing different things where, for a little while, I can focus on standup then sketch writing, then performing, then directing a video. That, to me, is stimulating.

What I normally do with recording, performing, and touring is my name. It's all on my shoulders. If it's a great show, I'm great. If it's not a great show, I'm not great.

Whether that is healthy or not to you, or healthy or not to anyone, or a doctor, is really of no concern to me. I don’t feel alive unless I’m performing, and that’s just the way I was born.

I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.

I feel connected to a higher power when I'm making music or performing. There's a spiritual experience for me.

Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing.

Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.

Acting is something I've done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart's in it.

Performing comedy, you develop a rhythm of ideas and laughs. I live for it.

On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.

Literally since I could walk... I was performing.

And much as I enjoy writing and creating stuff, I don't enjoy it so much that I am willing to give up any time that could otherwise be spent performing.

I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people understand that I was worth listening to, even though I was a child.

I still get nervous sometimes before performing.

I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.

Angels are our true and trusty servants, performing offices and works that one poor miserable mendicant would be ashamed to do for another.