Performing Quotes · Page 17

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

— Charley Pride

Angels are our true and trusty servants, performing offices and works that one poor miserable mendicant would be ashamed to do for…

— Martin Luther

When I see smiles while we are performing, whether live, on stage or in films or on TV, it gives me immense…

— Sunil Grover

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone…

— Jim Carrey

When I was little, I really loved movies and I also did a lot of performing.

— Rob Minkoff

I always tweet about where we're at. Since I'm performing at amphitheaters, I'll try to run up and down the stairs and…

— Julianne Hough

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

— Bruno Mars

I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

— Miyavi

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I…

— Van Morrison

I couldn't see a future of doing anything other than performing. I didn't like school if I'm being honest. I would have…

— Cheryl Cole

The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly…

— Jack Nicklaus

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually…

— Anonymous

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of…

— Jack Kerouac

As a cameraman, I was paid to stand within a few feet of Yehudi Menuhin performing. I saw Rudolph Nureyev dancing. I…

— Michael Bond

If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to…

— Aristotle

My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performing universe of her…

— Arundhati Roy

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed…

— Joseph Pilates

I learned that the American people are pretty great people. And they are just poorly served by their leadership, and Washington's very…

— Howard Dean

Hopefully I inspire people just to lose themselves a little bit. That's what I enjoy doing on stage: challenging myself with a…

— Borns

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the…

— Leo Ryan

'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the…

— Gene Roddenberry

A few years ago I had a weird relationship with performing live. I didn't enjoy it as much because the nerves took…

— Sam Smith

I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection.…

— Robin Williams

I think that everybody's worked on shows where you feel like maybe a divide has happened between the talent and the crew.…

— Jessalyn Gilsig

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

— Eric Bogosian

I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.

— Nancy Pearl

Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not…

— Anne Lamott

As far as the performance aspect, I'm going to be an actor. I still love performing, but I'm moving into more acting.

— Stephen Boss

I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.

— Philippe Petit

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

— Thomas Hobbes

I get really nervous right before I go on stage. But once I'm performing, I always love it. It's like being in…

— Birdy

I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.

— Dave Lombardo

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

— Natalia Kills

I have to say that my biggest Award is performing in front of my fans. Their love is my award.

— Shreya Ghoshal

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

— Nora Dunn

Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a…

— David Byrne

Performing is not the most natural function of a human being, I'm convinced.

— Michael Penn

When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to... I finally feel like myself.

— Mitski

I enjoy performing for heavily armed people. It's easier than going to Georgia.

— Robin Williams

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

— Moby