Performing Quotes · Page 16

When I'm not doing solo shows, I'm performing with my cowboy band Los Pacaminos - we play the kind of music you'd…

— Paul Young

I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.

— Chath Piersath

Even when I perform in front of ten people, I still give that energy as if I was performing in front of 3500.

— Lil Skies

I focused more on sharing my gift and performing than worrying about it being a competition.

— Rayvon Owen

My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland USA, which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I…

— John Barrowman

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

— Stephen Fry

I hear this song and I think, Man, this is ... great. This is the best I ever heard this. I forget…

— Guy Clark

The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things.

— Mia Wasikowska

Emotion is more than just anger. When I am performing, I need emotion, but I need control, too. Emotion drives the best…

— Mike Tyson

I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with…

— Fergie

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

— Frank Lampard

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting ,and dancing is what you want to do, then you just…

— Ariana Grande

I always call performing live "giving the people the medicine," because when you're engaged in it, you can feel the sort of…

— Nick Offerman

There's nothing like performing in front of a live crowd and just having people literally react to whatever it is you do,…

— Nikki Bella

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the…

— Antoine Lavoisier

I love to dance. But I don't like being up in front of tons of people. I didn't have that in me…

— Sherilyn Fenn

My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's…

— Joe Mande

Performing is really close to being in studio but performing takes over because being in the studio is two things; the first…

— NAO

He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications.…

— Lucas Malet

Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need…

— Joshua Foer

There's a gratification that comes from performing in front of a live audience, and you can't replicate that with anything else. In…

— Trace Adkins

If you work at an insurance company that sells premiums you wouldn't even sell to your mother, how happy would you feel…

— Paul Polman

I think you're always policing yourself by trying to do what you think would be "cool" and accepted by other people, until…

— John Legend

I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I…

— Natasha Calis

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

— Itzhak Perlman

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

— Charles Saatchi

When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.

— R. Kelly

I still enjoy performing, whether it's in front of two people or 2,000 people, but it's not fun once you leave the…

— Jake Roberts

The best part about performing is when you can fill the room with energy and you get that vibe back.

— Georgia Nott

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

— Paul Theroux

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

— Anonymous

Performing tai chi in space - it is comfortable; we got more outer space chi.

— Liu Yang

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

— Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

I like it when I'm on the stage, but honestly, I would be very happy if I could cut it off, just…

— Beyonce Knowles

We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.

— Pete Cashmore

When I'm performing I just want to tell the audience something. I want every person watching to walk away feeling something.

— Francesca Hayward

Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at…

— Darrell Hammond

We've had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different…

— Tessa Virtue

I will never want to stop live performing because there's nothing that compares to that high and the connection you have with…

— Megan Stalter

All my life I've been performing and just the fact that you can play all these different roles that are so removed…

— Roselyn Sanchez