Top 730 Performing Quotes

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.

The music is fun. The big difference performing it live is that we might get a little more heated, not as subdued, we’ll stretch things out more. It’s how you stay fresh after such a long time in the business.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

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

When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn’t earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

I sang barber shop harmony and sort of got into performing. And it just came naturally. Then, when I was in college after the war, I did a play, ‘Pygmalion,’ by George Bernard Shaw. And from then on, I knew that’s what I wanted to do.

The thing I miss about performing is being with people.

You cannot just exercise your rights and get away without performing your responsibilities. Understand that it should not be about ‘me’ but rather ‘us.’

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.

No, we’ve been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.

I’d love to do more theatre and acting. I attended a performing arts high school in London, and it would be great to be able to put all of that training to use again.

Being a father has fulfilled me in parts of my life that sustain me. It gives me a comfort and patience. All actors have this hole inside that they’re trying to fill by performing. I’m anxious to keep creating, but I’m not so desperate any more because I have the love and support of my kids and wife.

I’ve done a lot of action movies, and there has to be a certain amount of emotion in the actual performing of the stunt. It doesn’t have to be any particular emotion, but there has to be some life to it, and that’s not so easy.

In the summer of 1791, I gave up my concern in the ‘New Annual Register,’ the historical part of which I had written for seven years, and abdicated, I hope forever, the task of performing a literary labour, the nature of which should be dictated by anything but the promptings of my own mind.

I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.

I just love performing so much, and I threw myself into every musical theater production that was going in my home town and at school. And then, I went to the National Youth Music Theatre, which was really a galvanizing experience for me when I was 17.

Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person’s sense of self-worth.

It’s been really cool to go to places I’ve never been to around the country and performing for people and bringing a fun show to entertain folks.

I realized that ‘performing’ was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company ‘Synergy’ in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law.

Just performing is where I’m happiest, and gets me rid of my troubles and worries.

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.

We’ve been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play ‘My Girl’ with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.

If, by any chance, I get to perform, then it would be a great honor for me. Especially because performing in the Olympics in your country doesn’t happen to many skaters.

Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he’s performing.

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

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.

Fortunately for me, I’m in this unique business of not singing, not dancing, not performing – just kind of being there.

There’s nothing like performing in front of a live crowd and just having people literally react to whatever it is you do, and there’s nothing better than when you get that connection with the audience.

Acting is something I’ve done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart’s in it.

I’m not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I’ve got a record half finished.

One of the reasons I picked up the guitar is because I saw a video of Feist performing in Paris.

I didn’t really start performing until high school. My whole family is actually in the business, and started in the business in Chicago, so I was going to shows when I was a teeny-tiny kid, but I didn’t really start performing until high school.

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.

I’m doing a program with NAFME for music and education in schools, and for a week, we will be getting in a bus and traveling across the United States. We’re starting at Disney World and ending at the Grand OIe Opry. We will be performing at different schools, and I wrote a song for the program called ‘Always Sing.’

I didn’t know other children from divorced families, and I was a bit of a lost soul for a while. Then suddenly, I was performing. And it gave me an identity.

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.

I started performing in college, but I wasn’t writing a lot.

I never got nervous performing my own material.

I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

I always loved performing and being on stage.

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.

Street performing can be a great teaching ground and a barometer for what you’re doing. It’s rough and unforgiving at times, but it can be wild and fun and a real open canvas for your creativity.

I don’t see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don’t define them separately, so I can’t say one has helped the other, It’s all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.

Our goals, our dreams and ambitions have always been towards performing live music across the globe, and so when we were told we were performing at The Billboard Awards or being nominated for a VMA, they’re like extra bonuses.

My mom actually had a band called Six Pack – even though there were seven of them – who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.

There hasn’t been one highlight that stands out… but touring and performing has been great.

True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did ‘Fences.’ When you train, you can do anything.

The day I feel like I’m at an office job is the day I’ll quit performing in front of a camera.

Aside from performing in ‘Peepshow,’ I do yoga once a week and I like Pilates. I’m more into toning exercises over aerobics. I like working with a trainer at a private gym, but I also like going with friends because you don’t get bored or distracted.

The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There’s no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It’s a high-wire act. That excites me.