I was never pushed into the industry. I was a very shy child. I was not one to perform for friends and family at every get-together.
Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.
When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.
What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.
I probably wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for the gay community supporting me. I wouldn’t be the artist I was today if it wasn’t for that because that was the only community that let me try, let me perform without knowing who I was.
You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.
Our elected officials must understand that we, the American people, expect them to perform the duties of their office, even when that means working with other elected officials from different parties.
There may be some people in the country who forget to perform their duty. You should set an example by doing your job with honesty and faithfulness.
The old injunction ‘Don’t talk with your mouth full’ is based on the presumption that, however multifunctional a mouth may be, it should only perform one job at a time. Humans have found a way around this limitation in the form of food writing.
I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of ’em and I could deliver with the best of ’em.
Put me on telly, and I think I have a relaxation on camera that makes an audience relax, too. It’s not a conscious thing. Cameras don’t bother me, whereas other people try to perform to them.
Latinos are very passionate, and they perform a lot, and look at me, I’m talking with my hands, and this is just my normal self, so it kind of allows me to be who I am and not dumb it down.
By definition, chaplains minister to the spiritual needs of our men and women in armed services, a vital function that an individual without any inclination toward spirituality would not be able to perform.
A quarterback that goes out and performs for you and is a franchise quarterback is more valuable than a player playing another position, but there’s a lot more risk there. It’s a more difficult position to play, and there are lot more failures.
In theatre, you rehearse for months and then perform. That way, you’re totally in-sync with your character, the other characters, and the story.
Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once… that’s not a bad thing.
Hundreds of ballplayers have performed well after Tommy John surgery, in which an elbow ligament is replaced by material from elsewhere on the body. More and more, athletes will perform with a bit of this or a bit of that in a joint or muscle.
London was my first Olympics, but I tried for three beforehand. I was measured for the Olympic uniform three times before London, and I finally made the team. It was a big deal, and it was quite emotional, which is probably one of the reasons I didn’t perform at my best.
The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What’s being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.
You need to lift weights and do more resistance training. Get more sleep. I’m the first one who’s guilty of not doing that, but I work on it, and I’m aware of it. And drink more water. Drink Propel. You have to hydrate. You simply can’t perform at the level you could perform at if you’re dehydrated. Period.
I always say that I was dancing and acting in the belly. I feel like it’s something I was born with and inspired by my family since I grew up backstage, watching them perform. I guess it was just a natural path for me.
Every day I wake up, and I think about the wear and tear on my body, and will I be able to continue to perform at a high level. Sometimes I’m working with guys that are 15 years younger than me, 20 years younger than me.
There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time.
I’m making a record that’s half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It’s really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.
I did find it particularly difficult to do Broadway. It was not my favourite way to perform. When I do theatre, I like it to be smaller. I like the audience to be closer; I like it to be less presentational.
I love Jonathan Richman – I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, ‘Don’t worry, everybody, just get into it. I’m just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.’
I want to perform well.
I loved Rent when I first heard it, but it grew on me and so did Tick, Tick… Boom. Some songs are more interesting than others and sometimes the ones that never stood out at first end up being the best to perform.
I’m active on social media because that’s such a big reason why K-pop and Korean music performs the way it does.
I remember seeing ‘Spinal Tap’ at a young age and being like, ‘That’s how you perform comedy.’
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
It doesn’t matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it’s good work.
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.
When I perform on stage, you have to remember my performance or buy another ticket to the party! In television and film, you can see it over and over again.
It’s always dope being able to perform with your girlfriend and get money with your girlfriend.
What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.
It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.
I always wanted to write as much as perform.
When people hear you singing songs which are done as playback, they don’t see you. But when you perform live, they expect you to be interacting with them.
I have to perform every time I’m in the car, and show that I’m capable, and I need a little bit of timing and luck to come together.
I won’t have a standout moment until I perform at the VMAs, meet Ryan Gosling, and hug Sky Ferreira.
I have done research about people who think they’re doing movements and people – like Madonna and professional dancers – who are actually ‘performing’ movements. The people who can connect and perform during their workout get results way above and beyond the people who are just going through the motions.
I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up – I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don’t want to always be working in the one medium.
‘Ice Age’ felt like stage acting. You’d write a sequence, and sometimes you’d submit pages, but other times, I would actually perform it for the directors and producer in my office.
Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.
Seeing people catch a feeling in their spirit and sprint the aisles of the church while my cousins played driving, uplifting gospel stuck with me. I let that same feeling wash over me when I experience and perform music.
When I compete, I love a huge crowd, expectation, pressure, and I like to have nerves: the butterflies flying and my hands shaking. This way, I am completely amped, focused, and ready; otherwise, I tend to be to relaxed, content, and don’t perform at my maximal potential.
The plays that I performed in the ’70s are not the same plays that I perform today. However, what they have in common is a solid foundation of a story, and good, healthy comedy.
He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.
I really like ‘Hard-Knock Life’ because I get to perform with all of the other girls, and it’s such a strong number.
Juice cleansing has been all the rage for some time. And I used the word ‘rage’ advisedly; one must push a violent flood of liquidised vegetables and fruit through one’s system for at least three days in order to perform a ‘cleanse.’
