Top 100 Quotes About Performing
#1. There are many ways of performing the operations successfully. I can claim, however, to be in a position to explain how not to putt. I think I know as well as anybody how not to do it.
Harry Vardon
#3. I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
Fiona Gubelmann
#4. I've dreamed about performing songs, songs that don't even exist, as a complete song.
Ted Leo
#5. I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.
Garry Shandling
#6. When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.
Lenny Kravitz
#7. Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.
Janet Jackson
#8. Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.
Helen Reddy
#9. It's all about going out there, performing live, making music. But, obviously, being a guy who has thousands of screaming female fans doesn't exactly make it less fun
Zac Hanson
#10. I'm drawn to a lot of tragedies, and I love a Greek tragedy.But I would think - I start thinking realistically about it, and performing eight days a week, that would take a toll. I take things to heart. I don't know if I could survive, like, "Medea."
Eva Mendes
#11. I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace.
Mel Tillis
#12. I go on the road all the time, but I'm only performing for two hours a night, and then I'll do a meet-and-greet, and then I'll get a bite to eat, get drunk, pass out, wake up the next day, sleeping the next day, sleeping off the hangover, and then I'm in the next city.
Gabriel Iglesias
#13. In my early performing days, I played gigs under the pseudonym Whitey McFearsun. I painted my face blue, wore crimson lipstick, and strung on some tight silver latex pants.
Shawn Amos
#14. Very senior librarians, however, once they have proved themselves worthy by performing some valiant act of librarianship, are accepted into a secret order and are taught the raw arts of survival beyond the Shelves
Terry Pratchett
#15. I find that it is useless to worry about things I can't control and I can't control how many people come out tonight. All I can do is focus on writing the best songs I can write and performing the best I can perform.
Corey Smith
#16. The way you survive in the performing arts is by having a sense of your audience, and doing things which entertain and satisfy the audience, but in a more important way, cause the audience to question many things.
Michael Tilson Thomas
#17. That's one of our biggest challenges is finding out how to do that. There are times when you have to scale back. You might be performing on a five-by-five stage in front of 12 people. That's an exaggeration but there are times when you have to turn the corner and do an acoustic set.
Alan Powell
#18. I am a Filipino, inheritor of a glorious past, hostage to the uncertain future. As such, I must prove equal to a two-fold task -- the task of meeting my responsibility to the past, and the task of performing my obligation to the future.
Carlos P. Romulo
#19. We were also performing. We'd give them a list of, like, 'Here's how we want to be introduced' They'd be like, 'Great' And then 5 minutes later they'd come back, 'Bad news: we lost your list. But good news: we've got a trash bag full of weed!'
Amy Poehler
#20. When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
Jackie DeShannon
#21. Second-century Christian thinker Athenagoras wrote, Our life does not consist in making up beautiful phrases but in performing beautiful deeds.
Shane Claiborne
#22. Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.
Arne Duncan
#23. I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.
Pete Townshend
#24. I like not being noticed. It has been a struggle because I love performing, but if I'm in a group of people and someone has a bigger personality, I'm like, 'Go ahead, and have fun!'
Amy Adams
#25. I love performing. I love being a provocateur. I love putting myself in situations that are uncomfortable and that I have to get out of.
Sandra Bernhard
#26. Music is still the one thing that ties people together.
People can come together from all different religions,
walks of life, colours, creeds and enjoy the same song.
That's still the most incredible thing to me about performing live.
Dave Gahan
#27. I always loved performing and being on stage.
Tove Lo
#28. I am comfortable performing now. I love it!
Liz Phair
#29. I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.
Amy Lee
#30. Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.
Adam Smith
#31. I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.
Toni Braxton
#32. I pride myself on never using a cuss word on stage. Ever. I headline in Las Vegas every year, and this summer I am performing on an Alaskan cruise. Not too many comedians can pull that off. Funny thing is, my show doesn't change for Vegas.
Henry Cho
#33. The thing I miss about performing is being with people.
Tim Federle
#34. unequally; rarely do they assign equal weights to attributes when performing categorization (Goodman, 1955; Medin & Schaffer, 1978; Nosofsky, 1984; Ortony, 1979; Sutherland & Mackintosh, 1971; Trabasso & Bower, 1968: A. Tversky, 1977).
Lawrence W. Barsalou
#35. I can't imagine Jon Cryer performing with the New York Philharmonic isn't one of the signs of apocalypse.
Jon Cryer
#36. Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on tape is if the person doing the reading "acts" too much; it becomes irritating to you listening to it.
Salman Rushdie
#37. Everybody's doing it. When I'm performing and I do the Dougie, the fans lose their minds.
Doug E. Fresh
#38. As much as I love performing, nothing juices me up creatively like being in my own studio for an extended period. Songs, ideas, even paintings are pouring out of me. My inspiration and usual subject matter: life.
Adrian Belew
#40. True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#41. Proper work usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so
Charlie Brooker
#42. In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
Gary Shteyngart
#43. I wear and have worn scarves my entire life while traveling, working out, and now sometimes while performing, and not just on my head - I wear them around my neck and on my bag.
Estelle
#44. I did spend a lot of my childhood playing out movie scenarios in my head. I'd walk along the road, pretending like I was in the army, talking on the radio, and doing maneuvers. I dreamt a lot about performing in movies and living in fantasies.
Gerard Butler
#45. In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
Gareth Gates
#46. I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.
Charles Saatchi
#47. Emotion is more than just anger. When I am performing, I need emotion, but I need control, too. Emotion drives the best performance and is necessary, but it must be controlled. I believe Fedor [Emelianenko] does that. I do too. We may look different in how we do it, but we both do it.
Mike Tyson
#48. The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#49. With all the travelling and performing I've been doing, it's hard to find time to practice! But seriously, I probably did most of my practicing when I was younger.
McCoy Tyner
#50. Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and rewarding superstar behavior.
David Cottrell
#51. I always call performing live "giving the people the medicine," because when you're engaged in it, you can feel the sort of soul magic being exchanged between the performer and the audience.
Nick Offerman
#52. I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.
Marilyn Manson
#53. I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.
Rob Delaney
#55. For me I have learned to enjoy everything, especially performing live, so much more. I used to get horrible stage fright when I was younger and today and just love to sing for anyone who still turns up at my shows!
Olivia Newton-John
#56. But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music.
Lee Ann Womack
#57. For us, it is all about breaking the boundaries between different genres of music and combining different styles of music and performing what we are passionate about. We are so lucky that we can experience both worlds: the more intimate classical world and the wild and crazy world of rock n' roll.
Luka Sulic
#58. Mentally there's no question about whether I still like the sport and love doing it. I think it's pretty clear to everyone here that I love the sport. I love doing gymnastics and I love performing. So that's not really a question.
Samantha Peszek
#59. I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I'd be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud.
Emma Stone
#60. I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.
Chance The Rapper
#61. When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.
Anton Chekhov
#62. Don't focus on the wins and losses ... focus your efforts on performing to your full potential.
Michael Chandler
#63. I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder
Mingmei Yip
#64. Recipe for a dissatisfied adulthood is setting goals that are especially difficult to attain. Measured by life satisfaction 20 years later, the least promising goal that a young person could have was becoming accomplished in a performing art.
Daniel Kahneman
#65. The very act of visualizing yourself performing at your best prior to any event or activity will improve your performance.
Brian Tracy
#66. It's true: theatre has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I always liked everything about it. As a child, I used to get so excited about performing, I'd get the giggles.
Hattie Morahan
#67. I have performed many puppet and non-puppet characters in my career. Some I miss, some I do not. But when I miss them, I only miss performing them. The actual sweatiness of the fur and foam and fleece? Not so much.
Stephanie D'Abruzzo
#68. I think the condition of imperial denial is a handicap because if you do not recognize that you are essentially performing the functions of an empire, you are incapable of learning from the mistakes of past empires.
Niall Ferguson
#69. When you have been in TV and performing for as long as I have, you realise that you probably entertain in your sleep too ... as for my catch phrase, I didn't actually say so much 'Can you see what it is yet?
Rolf Harris
#70. Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.
Jo Stafford
#71. People often overlook the profound intimacy which can be felt by performing the smallest acts for someone they love. Never underestimate the energy that can be felt by simply sharing the same space with your soulmate. It is that electricity between two people that causes time to cease to exist.
Leanne R. Clute
#72. I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.
Erykah Badu
#73. I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.
Dominic Monaghan
#74. I'm more interested in writing than in performing.
Frank McCourt
#75. I had a real passion for performing. I craved the attention. I was a goofy kid just like I am a goofy adult. So as soon as I got the bug of getting laughs and getting on stage I just couldn't stop.
Tom Green
#76. Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.
Brett Somers
#77. I think the main thing you measure your success by is what you do in comparison to your opposition. If you're in an industry where you're the leader, then you're performing very well.
Gerry Harvey
#78. I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting classes. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.
Vinny Guadagnino
#79. I was undervalued so I stopped stripping. I was 18 years old and I worked three jobs. This was just one of them, and I really enjoyed performing. It was probably my first performing job ever. I really like to dance, obviously, but then I didn't really love taking the clothes off at the end.
Channing Tatum
#80. By performing apparently absurd rituals, you get in touch with something deep in your soul, in the oldest part of yourself, the part closest to the origin of everything.
Paulo Coelho
#81. The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.
Willem Dafoe
#82. There hasn't been one highlight that stands out ... but touring and performing has been great.
Christina Milian
#83. Every day, in every city and town across the country, police officers are performing vital services that help make their communities safer.
Eric Schneiderman
#84. I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.
Jim Carrey
#85. It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.
Owen Hart
#86. I certainly liked performing [Patrick Bateman], but it was because he thinks he's so [bloody] cool and just the [stuff], but is really such a cheesy dork.
Christian Bale
#87. Whoever functions in an office or calling received from one who holds priesthood keys exercises priesthood authority in performing her or his assigned duties.
Dallin H. Oaks
#88. Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you're performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they're chuffed - they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.
Adrian Grenier
#89. [On performing in action movies] I've spent all those years learning how to do certain skills, and then that competitive spirit kicks in and you want to do the stunts. Basically, it's the the male competitive ego at work.
Jason Statham
#90. Other people's lives are affected by how you are treating yourself and the way in which you are performing.
Jason Mraz
#91. Modern tests of working memory require the individual to switch repeatedly between two demanding tasks, retaining the results of one operation while performing the other. People who do well on these tests tend to do well on tests of general intelligence.
Daniel Kahneman
#92. There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.
David Friedman
#93. And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.
Scott Bakula
#94. You start out performing because it's fun, then you learn more things and you want to do more than go "Na-na-na-na" on a stage. The production end is interesting, writing is interesting, and you learn to coordinate all these things.
Grace Slick
#95. As much as I'd like to pretend that I'm not performing, I think any actor sometimes has themselves outside of themselves and is trying to direct themselves and control what you're seeing and thinking.
Patrick Fabian
#96. My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.
Moby
#97. Shit, you name it, they're performing. The D-Bags, Bending Cupid, the Mighty Storm, Black Falcon, and my fav band
K. Bromberg
#98. I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very important to get the audience on your side. As for a competition, you can't win without strong technical content.
Evgeni Plushenko
#99. In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.
Toni Braxton
#100. Everyone's got crazy fans! But honestly, the crazy fans are where it's at, because they know all the lyrics to the songs that you're singing, and they're dancing and having a great time. You can really enjoy performing for them, even more than you can enjoy performing for someone that's not crazy.
Ross Lynch
