Performing Quotes

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

I'm a reactor. I can react to crowds, performing situations.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

Once you've gotten used to performing, you can't give it up.

Don't focus on the wins and losses... focus your efforts on performing to your full potential.

I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I'm more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can't quite explain.

Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.

I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.

On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

Each time thou wishest to decide upon performing some enterprise, raise the eyes to heaven, pray God to bless thy project; if thou canst make that prayer, accomplish thy work.

Sometimes performing someone else's song is more difficult than writing your own.

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music.

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.

God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they had never the opportunity of performing.

I do, have done and always will believe that I am very capable of performing and thriving at any level of the sport.

Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.

If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.

Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here, too. One who interprets his world through his own filter.

Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.

Makes no matter if I'm performing in a grocery store, you're always gonna get 150%.

I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

I certainly liked performing [Patrick Bateman], but it was because he thinks he's so [bloody] cool and just the [stuff], but is really such a cheesy dork.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.

If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

There hasn't been one highlight that stands out... but touring and performing has been great.

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.

Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

Im also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now.