Performing Quotes · Page 22

In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I…

— Gareth Gates

Performing for the Dalai Lama - those are words I never imagined coming out of my mouth.

— Joe Nichols

Performing comedy, you develop a rhythm of ideas and laughs. I live for it.

— Louis C. K

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

— David Korten

Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to…

— Gwen Stefani

If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something…

— Kylie Minogue

I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was…

— Lilla Crawford

I sang barber shop harmony and sort of got into performing. And it just came naturally. Then, when I was in college…

— Harry Dean Stanton

I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend…

— John Lennon

I can remember a lot of nights performing in those early years where you felt that you hit some good moments, but…

— David Gilmour

I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here,…

— George Carlin

One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk; you're out there performing and…

— Amanda Palmer

Performing at my best is important to me and should be to everyone. I am blessed that my dad is a chiropractor.…

— Aaron Rodgers

Nothing really goes through my head when I'm performing live, I normally just look out into the crowd and see the fans…

— Perrie Edwards

I feel that performing is its own art form, and recording is its own art form, and writing is its own art…

— Adrianne Lenker

There's a way in which all of these grazers at the spirituality buffet are performing a service, because you could argue that…

— Wendy Kaminer

The bus ride to the arena... I slipped on my Discman and listened to some of my favourite music, all the while…

— Josee Chouinard

My greatest sense comes from the experience of performing in the movie. When I have a great experience, that becomes a perfect…

— Julia Roberts

Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of…

— James Wolcott

I went to University after my A levels and did a degree in performing arts. It was only when I got there…

— Freema Agyeman

Driving stock up from one day to the next is not what we are about. We are about building a good company…

— James Sinegal

I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the…

— T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

Fact is that I played piano and performed, as a young kid, a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra .…

— Herbie Hancock

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

— Al Pacino

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

— Maddie Hasson

Performing in front of an audience gives you an extra ten per cent energy and the chance to react to the instant…

— Bob Mortimer

I loved performing every week, but all of the activities and amazing people we met when we were not filming stick out…

— Rayvon Owen

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

— Cheryl Wheeler

The question I ask myself like almost everyday is 'Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?'

— Mark Zuckerberg

I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.

— Teller

I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.

— Xavier Cugat

This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not…

— Roy Haynes

I love performing. I love being a provocateur. I love putting myself in situations that are uncomfortable and that I have to…

— Sandra Bernhard

No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his…

— Joseph Brant

I'm not one of these guys who is dedicated to playing or performing - that's just one facet of my life.

— Dick Dale

I just really like performing for different crowds and seeing different places.

— Darci Lynne Farmer

Strictly' really opened my eyes to the idea of performing in front of a lot of people.

— Joe Sugg

“If all the world's a stage, I suggest you start performing at your best.”

— Rob Liano

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play…

— Erykah Badu