Performing Quotes

Being onstage and performing, the high of that, and people coming to see you, and getting to make them laugh - that's what gets me hyped up. It's a nervous excitement.

Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.

I knew when I was in high school that I wanted a job where they'd applaud if I showed up.

It seems that these phenomenal feats that race car drivers are performing are instinctive. They [require] very little mental workload.

Performing of any kind: singing, acting, dancing. I also get really excited during interviews.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.

I liked performing, but not the struggle.

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else.

I can't focus on any one day, because I always have to be ready for the next. It's fun but frenetic - like living in a circus that never stops performing.

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

I think that in performing, everybody's path is so so different, that there's nobody where I think, "Oh my god, that's exactly what happened to me."

If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. Its exhilarating!

I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar, I had to keep things very simple.

A lot of people that are always trying to be funny and "on" and performing are just hiding. It's just a cover for what they really are and how they really feel.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

It's hard being away from home. But other than that, performing is the highlight of my day.

Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live.

With all the travelling and performing I've been doing, it's hard to find time to practice! But seriously, I probably did most of my practicing when I was younger.

I always saw myself performing on stage and the girls yelling out my name.

Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.

I have never had one moment of stage fright and performing has always been a huge thrill and source of enjoyment for me. It's part of my personality.

I have always loved performing.

I'm practically an actor. Even when you do an interview, it's like you're performing a little bit, so yeah, I'm enjoying it, it's fun.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.

Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.

I love performing live, especially when I get in the zone. But the studio is really becoming a place I have grown to love.

Nothing beats performing live. For me, there's nothing better.

I love performing live: it's my very favorite thing to do.

I'm terrified of performing live.

I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.

With performing live, you obviously don't get the luxury of another take, but for me, it is all the same.

I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

I am so much of a mind now to be in the audience, to watch and to experience, and to feel, rather than having to get up and perform, I want my life to be less about performing.

Performing is one thing, and day-to-day stuff - like the way you talk to people - is totally different. If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp for forensics.

One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk; you're out there performing and being looked at, being assessed for really superficial stuff.

I left home at 14 and I have friends who joined the navy and the army performing troops at 9. I know people [like that]. It's a very straightforward character.

I do love live performing, but I'm not a stand-up naturally, and I don't like the lifestyle of working just in the evenings at clubs.

When you're coming up with your philosophy and approach to performing comedy, you take special note of the things you disagree with as much as the things you agree with.

I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing.

I knew what I wanted to do, which was to become a recording artist, so I definitely felt like I had a calling. The performing part was the part that I wasn't sure about.