I had gone to the High School of the Performing Arts in New York City. — Glenne Headly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If it were not for dreams there would not be such a thing as ballet, the cruelest of the performing arts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mom put me into a performing arts elementary school back in Cincinnati, so I started studying acting in school when I… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
Everyone at a performing arts schools is weird. The weirder you were, the better. If you weren't weird in some way, they'd… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone -… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything. — Marlon Wayans Copy Share Image
“Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.” — Frederik L. Schodt Copy Share Image
I would tell any and all young people who are curious about a life in the performing arts to stay curious, stay… — Ariana DeBose Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing is to establish myself as an actor. As much as it's a performing art, I'm not… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
My mom is an art teacher and is very much into the performing arts. What can I say? She is the female… — Erin Andrews Copy Share Image
I think it comes down to the type of personality that the performing arts seem to attract. And that's outgoing, very sensitive… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
Performing arts was something I was always part of. That was may be the only common thread that ran throughout my education,… — Nimrat Kaur Copy Share Image
At Columbia there's no performing arts department, so I was searching for it everywhere I could, and I took some photography classes… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I'm the chairman of the board of the Actor's Fund. It's an incredible organization. It helps anybody that has made their living… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have… — Scott Adkins Copy Share Image
Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
I was finishing up at High School of Performing Arts and finally, by the end of junior year and start of senior… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I went to Salford Tech. They did a two-year performing arts course. I went there singing and dancing - I had a… — Maxine Peake Copy Share Image
“THE ARTS The arts are about the qualities of human experiences. Through music, dance, visual arts, drama, and the rest, we give… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
I went away to this summer program after my junior year of high school. They used to have this thing called the… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
I realized I couldn't get bookings as a performing artist on the road, as it were, I could not make a living… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his… — Sam Hinton Copy Share Image
“Son of a bitch. She was blackmailing him. He had to hand it to her, she was clever. “How about one interview?”… — Alison Packard Copy Share Image
I could draw ideas. I remember writing a paper for a seminar class. I remember writing a paper about - and this… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
[Larry Laurenzano] gave me a junior high school saxophone to take to high school, because I was always taking one of our… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
“Fifteen of his clubs, dedicated to politics, music, and the performing arts, had all been developing strategic plans for the past two… — Ilya Ilf Copy Share Image
Even though I feel I am a bit reticent and shy, performing arts like dancing and acting is like my alter ego. — Sanya Malhotra Copy Share Image
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice. It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Baseball is beautiful…the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity. — Bowie Kuhn Copy Share Image
I grew up with gay family members, and I went to a performing arts high school. So I grew up in children's… — Erika Jayne Copy Share Image
I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm… — Katy B Copy Share Image
The way you survive in the performing arts is by having a sense of your audience, and doing things which entertain and… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat… — Leontyne Price Copy Share Image
I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I finished high… — Betty Who Copy Share Image
I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
When I was still a student, I came out of a performing arts high school, and the female students who were doing… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel… — Tweet Copy Share Image
I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
![“[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone - except the music industry itself.” quote by Russell Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54c/russell-simmons-900_art_performing-artists-are-making-greater-pe_132648.png)
![“I was finishing up at High School of Performing Arts and finally, by the end of junior year and start of senior year, made some progress as a 16 year-old classical saxophone player. But not really... not like how the legit cats do. But I love the [Jacques] Ibert, love [Alexander] Glazunov, love…” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c7/jon-gordon-1655_art_i-was-finishing-up-at-high-school-of-per_2762115.png)
![“[Larry Laurenzano] gave me a junior high school saxophone to take to high school, because I was always taking one of our school horns home to practice and I couldn't afford to buy one. He gave my friend, Tyrone, a tuba and he gave me a junior high saxophone for each of us to use at Performing Arts…” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/217/jon-gordon-1655_art_larry-laurenzano-gave-me-a-junior-high-s_1950287.png)
