Performing Quotes · Page 15

I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person…

— Ricky Jay

I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do…

— Kate Micucci

I saw a sign in Boulder. It said, 'Live Music and Darts.' Chicken wire isn't going to help at all.

— Tom Rush

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

— Anthony Anderson

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

— Chris LeDoux

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

— Van Morrison

The idea of calling out a performer for being performative is mind-numbingly redundant as an exercise. Performing is a performer's job.

— Matty Healy

I have always enjoyed performing, but I think when I was in the fifth grade was when I discovered that I really…

— Cindy Busby

You young people yourselves are capable of performing anything. Our inventors can invent in a high level. Our innovators can innovate in…

— Ruhollah Khomeini

Before I started rapping and touring I weighed about 160. But by going on the road every night eating fast food, performing…

— Rakim

Selling, in particular, can be a challenge; many investors are tempted to become more optimistic when a security is performing well. This…

— Seth Klarman

I'm not subject to their rise and fall because I'm not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going…

— Leo Kottke

Sometimes you go to a show, and you see someone and think they're not there right now. They're performing, but it's muscle…

— Tyler Joseph

My mom is an art teacher and is very much into the performing arts. What can I say? She is the female…

— Erin Andrews

I come from a big, loud family, and I'm the quieter one. Performing is something I have to switch on. I've heard…

— Lorde

From my first fight, I loved being in the ring. I tune everything out - the lights, the smells, the noise -…

— Claressa Shields

I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a performing…

— Christian Cooke

I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to Talk Soup, where I was writing…

— Aisha Tyler

Comedy is actually very hard. It's hard to choose those moments and know when you can really push it, and know when…

— Gerard Butler

Most robotic vacuum cleaners don't see their environment, have little suction, and don't clean properly. They are gimmicks. We've been developing a…

— James Dyson

There will always be situations in which conflicts arise between individual and communal values - Catholic police officers deployed to enable women…

— John Kleinig

To perform at the Cardiff Millennium Centre was amazing in itself - the theatre is an incredible venue and it was great…

— Francesca Jackson

If an earthly king was to issue out a royal proclamation, on performing or not performing the conditions therein contained, the life…

— George Whitefield

Of course I love when people are quiet, but I also love when people are comfortable. I love when people emote. The…

— Missy Mazzoli

I love performing, and connecting with an audience never gets old for me.

— Steve Miller

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,…

— Stan Lee

The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

— Tullian Tchividjian

I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish…

— Elton John

I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud…

— Cher Lloyd

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

— Pete Townshend

I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever…

— Joe Cocker

If you feel too comfortable while you're performing, you're probably not doing it right.

— Cameron Britton

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

— Trevor Nunn

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live.

— Eileen Myles

It never even entered my imagination that I could be performing on Broadway.

— Lauren Ridloff

To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be…

— Michael Owen

I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again.

— Chris LeDoux

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

— Bowie Kuhn

I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.

— Janelle Monae

For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.

— Christina Milian