Performing Quotes · Page 7

Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

— Gabe Kaplan

I love intimacy, always, of performing.

— Julio Iglesias

I love making movies, but there's nothing like performing live.

— Dwayne Johnson

I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

— Ellie Kemper

Succeeding is performing at your best when your best is required.

— John Wooden

I love singing and I love performing and just making things perfect.

— Keke Palmer

I'm usually most inspired when I finish performing and traveling.

— Sabrina Claudio

I'm always performing at Gay Pride events.

— Mya

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

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

— Steven Magee

Everything that came to me, in terms of the ritzier side of performing, was a plus.

— John Hurt

Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage…

— Brendan Dooling

I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid…

— Patti LaBelle

People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.

— Sathya Sai Baba

I started performing in musical events after the success of 'Victory' and fans demanded the song 'Khaali Quarter' in every show.

— Arjun Janya

I was a teenager doing teenager things, and now I have the honor of being on tour with musical giants Enrique Iglesias…

— Prince Royce

I love performing in front of a live audience. I dont get nervous at all. I'd rather perform in a huge arena…

— Stacy Keibler

I've always felt like there's a certain amount of doing what I do, and performing and making records and doing interviews and…

— Chris Cornell

Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have people who are high-performing working for you, it's so easy to do your job. Otherwise, you can't even agree…

— Douglas Conant

Whereas when you perform, the song is done. The music is out. People know it already. You can interpret it differently, the…

— NAO

U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that.…

— Apolo Ohno

I think for a lot of people that are in performing arts, it's easy to fall into the trap of starting to…

— Audra McDonald

It seems to me that we spend most of our spiritual energies trying to explain why the God of Elijah, Samson, David,…

— Eric Ludy

We have self-assessment tools, computer-based tools to see how we are performing mentally in outer space and there's some also very interesting…

— Leroy Chiao

Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the…

— Glenn Gould

I think there is just this inherent understanding between us at a subconscious level when we play. It's like we anticipate each…

— Edward Kowalczyk

We've had experience of involvement in a local scene, and it was a good one, and we've learned a lot from it,…

— Jack White

.. Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying…

— Brad Paisley

I become exaggerated, and loud, and obnoxious, and full of the spirit of improvisation. That's one of the weird things about performing,…

— Wayne White

Grease is one of the movies that made me want to be an entertainer, and I have literally been waiting my whole…

— Julianne Hough

Once you've gotten used to performing, you can't give it up.

— Minnie Pearl

When you're performing, you're creating a moment.

— Erykah Badu

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

— Jerry Rice

I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.

— Tommy Emmanuel

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

— Chris Carmack

I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing.

— Leighton Meester

I just feel better when I'm performing.

— Fats Domino

Performing my show is something I constantly think about.

— David Copperfield