Performing famous quotes

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.
-- Adam Lambert

#Thinking #Way #Performing

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
-- Agnes de Mille

#Dance #Steps #Performing

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
-- Alan Cumming

#Men #Challenges #Performing

A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Sleep #Performing

I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.
-- Ansel Elgort

#Ballet #Faces #Performing

Posing is a performing art.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Art #Posing #Performing

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!
-- Ashley Tisdale

#People #Stage #Performing

I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
-- B. B. King

#Young #Performing #Kicks

Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.
-- Bell Hooks

#Writing #Should #Performing

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.
-- Bijou Phillips

#Soul #Performing #Feels

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.
-- Bill Gaede

#Predictions #Explaining #Performing

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.
-- Bobby McFerrin

#Instruments #Performing #Audience

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
-- Bobby McFerrin

#Writing #Chance #Performing

Performing was terrifying.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Scary #Performing

Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.
-- Cathy Rigby

#Golf #Vulnerable #Performing

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
-- Charley Pride

#Energizing #Humbling #Performing

I knew when I was in high school that I wanted a job where they'd applaud if I showed up.
-- Cheryl Wheeler

#Jobs #School #Performing

I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again.
-- Chris LeDoux

#Fire #Performing #Feels

There hasn't been one highlight that stands out... but touring and performing has been great.
-- Christina Milian

#Standing Out #Touring #Performing

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint...
-- Claude Monet

#Miracle #Paint #Performing

I really love live performing!
-- Clay Aiken

#Performing

My background was in performing originally.
-- Cy Coleman

#Performing #Backgrounds

I really like performing for people.
-- Dan Harmon

#People #Performing

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
-- Dan Rather

#Business #Egomaniacs #Performing

I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.
-- Dave Lombardo

#Educational #Aspect #Performing

I persist in performing.
-- David Tudor

#Performing #Persist

If you're performing for the right reasons, it's glorious.
-- Dion DiMucci

#Reason #Performing #Glorious

I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.
-- Dionne Warwick

#Song #Pleasure #Performing

Everybody's doing it. When I'm performing and I do the Dougie, the fans lose their minds.
-- Doug E. Fresh

#Mind #Fans #Performing

If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.
-- Eddie Murphy

#Artist #Long #Performing

The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.
-- Eric Whitacre

#Performing #Terror

When you're performing, you're creating a moment.
-- Erykah Badu

#Creating #Moments #Performing

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
-- Fiona Shaw

#Theater #Performing #Stills

If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile.
-- Fred Wilson

#Way #Scales #Performing

Performing is one of the best feelings I know!
-- Gloria Estefan

#Feelings #Performing

I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.
-- Grimes

#Sick #Performing

This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.
-- Guy Clark

#Tunes #Fantasy #Performing

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.
-- Gwen Stefani

#Forever #Realistic #Performing

We tune because you care.
-- Herb Pedersen

#Tunes #Care #Performing

I love performing in Las Vegas.
-- Holly Madison

#Vegas #Las Vegas #Performing

I liked performing, but not the struggle.
-- Irene Cara

#Struggle #Performing

I love acting. I love performing.
-- Isaiah Mustafa

#Acting #Performing

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
-- Jack Wild

#Buzz #Performing #Audience

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Easy #Pretending #Performing

Other people's lives are affected by how you are treating yourself and the way in which you are performing.
-- Jason Mraz

#People #Way #Performing

A little Isadora Duncan and a little Butoh this was choreography and performing that was simultaneously both lush and spare.
-- Jennifer Dunning

#Littles #Duncan #Performing

I was performing from the age of three.
-- Jennifer Ellison

#Age #Three #Performing

Performing for the Dalai Lama - those are words I never imagined coming out of my mouth.
-- Joe Nichols

#Mouths #Coming Out #Performing

If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.
-- Joe Sakic

#Healthy #Performing

(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.
-- John Cassavetes

#Acting #Performing #Capable

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.
-- John Denver

#Joy #Purpose #Performing

I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.
-- Joseph Murray

#Skins #Performing

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.
-- Joshua Bell

#Way #Interpretation #Performing

I love performing, signing autographs, taking 'selfies' with the fans. This is just what I feel like I was born to do.
-- Juicy J

#Fans #Born #Performing

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.
-- Karen Kain

#Artist #Dancer #Performing

I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.
-- Kay Boyle

#Duty #Difficult #Performing

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.
-- Kenneth Tynan

#Hands #Fists #Performing

For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless.
-- Kim Gordon

#Fearless #Performing

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.
-- Kim Wilde

#Challenges #Performing #Horticulture

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. Its exhilarating!
-- Laura Marano

#Theater #Performing #Feels

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Planning #Performing #Audience

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

#People #Faces #Performing

Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.
-- Lemon Andersen

#Writing #Performing

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!
-- Liz Phair

#Performing

On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.
-- Luciano Pavarotti

#Focus #Performing

Literally since I could walk... I was performing.
-- Lyndsy Fonseca

#Performing #Walks

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

#Luxury #People #Performing

There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that.
-- Madonna Ciccone

#Enjoy #Performing #Shows

It's hard being away from home. But other than that, performing is the highlight of my day.
-- Martina McBride

#Home #Away From Home #Performing

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.
-- Melanie Fiona

#Performing #Wanted #Performers

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

#Want #Getaways #Performing

I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.
-- Michael Jackson

#Writing #Dancing #Performing

There is no greater bliss than dancing and performing.
-- Michael Jackson

#Dancing #Bliss #Performing

To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself.
-- Michael Owen

#Performing #Streaks #Angry

All I have to concentrate on is my performing.
-- Mickey Gilley

#Performing

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

#Giving #Used #Performing

My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.
-- Moby

#Jobs #Musician #Performing

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.
-- Neil Diamond

#Songwriting #Performing #Hardest

I just always had a penchant for performing for people.I'm a jackass clown.
-- Nick Offerman

#People #Clown #Performing

I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing
-- Nora Dunn

#Drinking #Sober #Performing

I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.
-- Patti LaBelle

#Trouble #Performing #Chorus

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

#Interviews #Laid Back #Performing

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.
-- Philip Emeagwali

#Computer #Sometimes #Performing

I'm terrified of performing live.
-- Rashida Jones

#Performing #Performing Live

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.
-- Renee Fleming

#Thinking #Phrases #Performing

Never look at the trombones, you'll just encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss

#Looks #Performing #Trombone

I'm a reactor. I can react to crowds, performing situations.
-- Rick Nielsen

#Crowds #Performing #Situation

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

#Mics #Stage #Performing

This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.
-- Robert Crippen

#Airplane #Spaceships #Performing

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
-- Robert Smith

#Years #Done #Performing

We suffered for our music. Now, it's your turn.
-- Sam Bush

#Performing #Turns

The cost of performing well in bad times can be relative underperformance in good times.
-- Seth Klarman

#Good Times #Bad Times #Performing

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?
-- Seth Lloyd

#Digital #Research #Performing

I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing
-- Shannon Miller

#Want #Performing #Pursue

I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces.
-- Shannon Miller

#Kids #Faces #Performing

I love to dance. But I don't like being up in front of tons of people. I didn't have the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. So it wasn't something I ever seriously considered.
-- Sherilyn Fenn

#People #Desire #Performing

I truly get very emotional when I am performing and see their (Fans) love for me.
-- Shreya Ghoshal

#Emotional #Fans #Performing

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.
-- Tom Wopat

#Experience #Excited #Performing

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

#Frying Pans #Chance #Performing

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do
-- Toni Braxton

#World #Performing #Performing Live