Performing Quotes

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.

I was always a performing arts kid in general - but I felt like my ultimate goal was to be an actress and be in films.

In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.

Performing is always my biggest rush. The energy is boundless from a great crowd.

I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.

As a cameraman, I was paid to stand within a few feet of Yehudi Menuhin performing. I saw Rudolph Nureyev dancing. I couldn't believe I was being paid for that.

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.

All I have to concentrate on is my performing.

My way into making movies - into making things is general - has been through performing.

I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

I've done the performing monkey stuff and massive breakdowns, it's just they weren't documented.

I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.

Whereas when you perform, the song is done. The music is out. People know it already. You can interpret it differently, the band can perform it differently, so I like the freedom of performing.

I am not doing any favour, only performing a duty; this victory is a result of struggle of five generations.

He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity.

I think [song 'Can't Stop Workin'] it's the constant work; performing and traveling. It gets to be a bit of a strain. But if you pace yourself, which I've managed to do, you can go pretty well.

A huge portion of Trump voters are incredibly pleased with how he's performing. They see what they want to see.

I just always had a penchant for performing for people.I'm a jackass clown.

I always call performing live "giving the people the medicine," because when you're engaged in it, you can feel the sort of soul magic being exchanged between the performer and the audience.

Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing onstage.

Comedians are the most challenging people for me to shoot. Because you're not actually in the dialogue with them, they are performing. When I work with a comedian, I become their audience.

I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.

I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.

Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.

The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.

I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.

I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.

Writing and performing are to me what water and movement are to sharks.

Simply performing devotional activities will not impart devotion to others but our consciousness should be absorbed.

Before I started rapping and touring I weighed about 160. But by going on the road every night eating fast food, performing every night, partying and drinking I started gaining weight immediately.

I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

It's fun when you're winning and performing well, but it's also hard because now you get older, you got responsibilities.

I have people come onstage and ask me questions and I get to meet them. That's one of the reasons I like it. When you're performing, when you're doing your movies, they're not there with you.

I focused more on sharing my gift and performing than worrying about it being a competition.

I loved performing every week, but all of the activities and amazing people we met when we were not filming stick out to me the most.

The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.