Performing Quotes · Page 25

I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How…

— Roseanne Barr

I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years…

— Carole King

I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn't know what the thing was. It's the honor what I loved.

— Elizabeth Cotten

It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.

— John Hiatt

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

— Kim Gordon

What I enjoy most about performing is making people happy. Just to make a person smile means more to me than anything.

— Michael Jackson

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

— Bella Thorne

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

— M. Ward

Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on…

— Salman Rushdie

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean…

— Gil Gerard

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be…

— Anonymous

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I…

— Patton Oswalt

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then…

— Martin Luther

I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between…

— Eddie Izzard

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic…

— Michael Sheen

Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that…

— Florence Welch

My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the…

— Steve Martin

My son, Jett, is two, and when I was pregnant my nose got bigger, so I got a new one. Everything was…

— Jill Scott

If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may,…

— Bertrand Russell

I feel like I've been doing performing my entire life. I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.…

— Alex Winston

I just don't want to be bored. That's the only criteria I have when I choose a role to play. I like…

— Paul Giamatti

Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It…

— Meredith Willson

And treating poetry as a performing art emphasizes its ephemerality. A printed poem can be endlessly reprinted, photocopied, scanned, uploaded, cut and…

— James Arthur

I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

— Leo Howard

What religion cannot do, GRACE does! Grace empowered obedience beats striving and performing any time!! Every time!!

— Floyd McClung

I've done the performing monkey stuff and massive breakdowns, it's just they weren't documented.

— Moby

It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.

— Rick Perry

I still believe that the voice as well as the body express a song together - that's my philosophy of performing a…

— Neeti Mohan

Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.

— Goran Persson

“When in the presence of armed police officers, you must be constantly performing a risk assessment of the hazards they present to…

— Steven Magee

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

— Clive James

Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.

— Rita Wilson

I've started to get used to traveling a lot and performing, but still everything has grown so quickly and is very exciting!

— Birdy

I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.

— Janelle Monae

I love performing. It's a phenomenal getaway. If you want to really let out everything you feel, that's the time to do…

— Michael Jackson

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

— David Tudor

Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?

— Robert Sheckley

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

— Linda Ronstadt