Performing Quotes

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.

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

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.

Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence.

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 do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.

I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

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

My background was in performing originally.

Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.

A little Isadora Duncan and a little Butoh this was choreography and performing that was simultaneously both lush and spare.

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.

Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?

I only won $250 all summer. And then I got crippled. I had a horse step on me while performing and it was messed up for a while.

If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.

Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.

I started out performing as a little boy, I was trying to make my mother feel better and laugh because she was sick and in pain all the time. I found out that I had that power to relieve her.

I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

Performing in front of my fans is what I love to do and I hope I get to do it forever.

Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.

My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

I hope to write someday and that’s even more terrifying than performing. You don’t just entertain the audience, you give them little bits of your soul.

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.

I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.

If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table.

Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

As long as people want to hear me play and as long as I'm able to play, then I will. I enjoy playing and performing. If I wasn't doing that, what else would I do?

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life.

Sometimes, God may prioritize performing a miracle on our hearts and minds over a miracle concerning our circumstances.

In order to have a lasting career you'll need to spend time performing live to build your own audience, as it's not all about social media. Word of mouth still rules.

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

"Proper work" usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so.

I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.

My mother always wanted to be in show business, but her parents discouraged her. So when I started performing for the mirror she enrolled me in dancing, singing and piano lessons.

The question I ask myself like almost everyday is 'Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?'

We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.

We suffered for our music. Now, it's your turn.

I love performing, signing autographs, taking 'selfies' with the fans. This is just what I feel like I was born to do.