Performing Quotes · Page 21

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

— Bill Hader

Be it in school, society, or college, I just wanted to be on stage and used to love performing.

— Vicky Kaushal

I'm very much looking forward to getting back on the road - there really is nothing like performing stand-up in front of…

— John Bishop

We're all about performing and giving our audience and our fans the best entertainment we can.

— Mandy Rose

I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.

— Patti LaBelle

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

— Brad Dourif

When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.

— Rachel Weisz

You can tell when someone is reading the lines of a song or performing it.

— G-Eazy

I would advise dancers, musicians and others in the entertainment industry to take up yoga, as it clears the mind and creates…

— Emmanuel Jal

I have some sort of performing gene that's just there and I cannot explain it but I want to connect with people…

— Wayne White

Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player?…

— Jimmy Connors

I think that that's part of how people have responded to The Tiger Rising. It's what I call my dark child. It's…

— Kate DiCamillo

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent…

— Julie Andrews

When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the…

— Ariel Gore

I love performing. The sounds coming at me are dynamic, colorful and multi-layered. The energy from the musicians around me and from…

— Hilary Hahn

You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and -…

— Harry Connick, Jr

One of the reasons my father ... became a dentist was so he could always be home for dinner and spend weekends…

— Dean Ornish

When I was 9, I auditioned for an arts school in Toronto with a few of my friends. The sole reason we…

— Jake Epstein

I am semi-ambivalent about being on camera - sort of low-key. I don't like being on camera stuff that much. I like…

— Adam Carolla

All men, and all created nature, have been at work, from the beginning of time to this day, to produce the circumstances…

— William Batchelder Greene

I remember performing with the Choir as an instrumentalist when I was still in school and it was wonderful to share the…

— Katherine Jenkins

We suffer the stress of infinite opportunity: There are so many things that we could do, and all we see are people…

— David Allen

I've got three sons, and two of them would absolutely hate being on the stage and never liked appearing in their school…

— Piers Morgan

The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting…

— Dorothy Day

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

— Allison Silverman

Touring is what we work so hard for - performing every night to huge crowds and getting to see all our fans…

— Perrie Edwards

The adrenaline of performing on stage to a crowd - there's nothing like it.

— Shane Filan

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

— Laura Marano

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

— Martina McBride

When I'm performing, this is what everything builds up to, and everything has allowed me to be here.

— Girl Talk

The adrenaline of performing live in front of an audience is a feeling that's hard to replicate.

— Jim Ross

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

— Dominic Monaghan

There's a moment of truth that comes when you are performing, and you are all alone.

— Frank Vincent

Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.

— Lemon Andersen

“Sometimes the stage terrifies me,” I confessed. “But being here alone like this, it’s freeing.” Solitude can be freeing,” he said.”

— Lesa Howard

Honestly, live is my favorite way of performing. Every show is a completely different energy.

— Sharon Van Etten

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

— Juicy J

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

— Bobby McFerrin

From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

— Heather Dubrow

I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.

— Sharon Van Etten