Performing Quotes

When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true.

If I do a lot of television, than I miss theater. If I do a lot of theater, than I miss film. This global thing of performing arts gives me strength.

It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.

I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry.

As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I'm still performing at 50, it's because I'll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them.

This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.

I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be a Domestic Goddess."

Singing your own songs live is so personal, it's like standing there reading out your diary pages. I still get really nervous so I would have to say performing is the greater rush for me.

This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing.

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone - except the music industry itself.

I've always said that racing in New York is performing on the big stage.

Fortunately for me, I'm in this unique business of not singing, not dancing, not performing - just kind of being there.

I definitely want to continue acting and performing.

I feel so guilty when I see orcas performing their stupid tricks in their little swimming pools, and when I see circuses or elephant abuse. I don't want to be in the same industry with these people.

If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'

I love performing. I love being a provocateur. I love putting myself in situations that are uncomfortable and that I have to get out of.

The day I feel like I'm at an office job is the day I'll quit performing in front of a camera.

People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.

When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.

And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.

I've been performing my whole life.

I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.

Honestly, live is my favorite way of performing. Every show is a completely different energy.

I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.

Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.

I don't love performing, because it's nerve-racking and it's time - consuming to rehearse a whole set - and my time can often be better served writing music and just making it and putting it out.

Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.

As far as the performance aspect, I'm going to be an actor. I still love performing, but I'm moving into more acting.

They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.

Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.

Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.

Every American was to become a performing self.

When I look at my longterm goals for the rest of my life, there are so many things other than performing that make me happy.

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how we set 'Teachers Lounge' up.

After twenty plus years of performing hundreds of shows a year, I prefer to try things out on stage rather than for friends. I don't see the benefit in that, really.

I've dreamed about performing songs, songs that don't even exist, as a complete song.

I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years.

I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.

How does one magnify a calling? Simply by performing the service that pertains to it.

The thing I miss about performing is being with people.

In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.

I have been very fortunate to have been able to make a living from what I love to do best - performing and singing for people.

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood.

I grew up performing in theatre.

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.