... 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 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
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
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
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
When I got to Performing Arts, within the first week, a few days, Bill Charlap walked in and couldn't read music but… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
My ultimate goal is to maintain a career of 25 years in the entertainment business-including theatre, film, TV, fashion, touring, running a… — Mya Copy Share Image
The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Performers put their heart and soul into their art, and can be subject to highly personal attacks and criticism. The tone and… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me.… — Ving Rhames Copy Share Image
Everything around you can use. It's like your tools and your material. Whether it's in performing arts like dance, or visual arts,… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when… — Lainie Kazan Copy Share Image
I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got into the… — Merritt Wever Copy Share Image
I was in a very multi-racial, multi-cultural schooling system. I had a really delightful childhood. I was a jock. I became a… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
I think in the end there is one ultimate goal with all my careers, and that is, as a performing artist, you… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
I've had several moments in my career where it seemed like I might not age out of the bracket the world wants… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
DYT, under the direction of Paula Garfield, was my first experience of deaf performing arts and I loved my time there. It… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I've always performed. From the time that I was little, I was pretty precocious and always gravitated toward performing arts. But I… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
My brother was older, very bright. He went to university. I wasn't academically bright - maybe at first, when I was little,… — Suranne Jones Copy Share Image
My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his monologues and stuff… — Chloe Grace Moretz 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 was an arts kid in every form of the word you can imagine. I wanted to sing and dance and act… — Jason Derulo Copy Share Image
I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a performing… — Christian Cooke 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
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 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
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
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
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
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarate, and the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater… — Audra McDonald 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
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