It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn’t want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.
Typically, it takes young players years to adjust to life in the big leagues and to start performing up to their capabilities. Most of the blame for this rests on these ridiculous old baseball norms that say young players are to be seen and not heard.
Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.
I would do these performances around town at different places, and that’s when I really fell in love with performing, and I knew this was something that stood me up and filled me in a way that nothing had and nothing could. I really just fell in love with it.
Good tests can help teachers determine how their students are performing and identify the areas in which their students need assistance. Like an X-ray, however, tests can diagnose, but they cannot cure.
I grew up watching Hong Kong noir films. As a kid, I often imagined myself playing the lead role in such movies, performing gun fights and sacrificing myself for the sake of friendship.
I feel more comfortable performing when I’m wearing something crazy. I grew up in the ’90s, so I love a choker and platform shoes like the Spice Girls wore.
I’ve been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
I like audiences and performing and, you know… applause!
Writers and musicians are very similar in that the chances of making a life in either field are so infinitesimal. And once you’re in, the chances of staying viable are difficult. But there is something incredibly different about performing in front of a live audience, as opposed to sitting at your desk typing.
What’s interesting is a lot of the older music when we start performing it, it acts a lot like muscle memory. It’s kind of like riding a bike. For me as a singer, I just had to remember like what part of my face I sang that into.
‘Just Can’t Let You Go’ is a song about passion. It’s when you have such a strong passion and love for someone or something that your heart just can’t let it go. Whether it’s a special boy, girl, or that feeling you get when performing on stage or playing a sport. For me, my passion is music. I just can’t let it go!
My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I’d been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.
Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I’m going to be happy.
I grew up here in New York City and New Jersey, performing on Broadway shows, surrounded by some of my closest friends from the LGBT community. My father, a minister from New Jersey, shaped my view that love is love, that we are all equal.
I’ve always been kind of precocious, but my journey sort of solidified when I was in college and majored in theater. That’s how I knew I wanted to spend my life writing, telling, and performing stories.
Performing on stage is my first love – it’s why I wanted to be an actor in the first place – and ‘Arcadia’ is the highlight of my career so far. I love the intimacy of a live theatre audience – you can really squeeze every last drop out of each scene.
I love performing. The more I do it, the more I grow into it.
I love performing in front of people, no matter where they come from or what language they speak.
As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.
There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine.
I’m not going to play gigs as Jamie xx. I’m just going to DJ. I’m not comfortable performing my songs on a stage. It’s not something I think I’m particularly good at.
I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.
I started performing in 1950 at the age of 16 when I joined the Burton Lester’s Midgets as a performer. Shortly after, I became a DJ with Mecca Organization before joining Billy Smart’s Circus as a clown and shadow Ringmaster.
I’m crazy excited to be performing at the MTV Brand new 2017 showcase! MTV has always been about showcasing new talent, and to be selected by the team to perform on the night is an honour!
I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the ‘negress’ coming into a white-box institution. It’s kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.
It was a relief to get dropped which is sad in a way because you never want to miss a game. But I was not performing and mentally I got to a stage where I was not concentrating and did not want to be there. I was not enjoying walking out there and feeling like I didn’t know where the next run was coming from.
I’ve always felt like there’s a certain amount of doing what I do, and performing and making records and doing interviews and photo shoots and that, that are kind of a necessary evil of getting my music to people’s ears to hear. Over the years, I’ve just become more tolerant of that.
Jazz is a hard music, and you have to really work hard and also have fun performing; that’s the most important thing.
Performing was something I could cling to. It was the only thing I had some control over and that’s why I did it. If I hadn’t, I’m not sure which way I’d have gone.
If I weren’t performing, there is a real chance that I would be a ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ groupie. I think that production is masterful in every way.
I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I’m passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.
In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.
I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.
I love performing.
Extroverts may get places faster, but for introverts it’s all about working at the pace you need and, at the end of the day, performing at your best.
As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I’m still performing at 50, it’s because I’ll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them.
I mean, there’s definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. But at the same time, it’s just performing. No matter what, it’s performing.
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.
The thrill of performing – that’s something that hasn’t changed for me. That simultaneous joy of creating something and sharing it with an audience – it’s the same now as it was then, when it was just my cousins’ birthday party.
I like performing in front of big crowds.
I’m not very good at being a performing monkey.
With music, you’re really showing someone a piece of your soul. You’re saying, ‘This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I’m performing this. This is how I’m presenting it to you.’ There’s something really scary about that, but there’s also something next-worldly about it, too.
The concept of clearing one’s mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing but that task, yet is open at the same time to anything that might happen – that concept can be applied to playing guitar, and it’s enormously helpful for improvising.
It’s a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
My fantasy had always been making a music video and performing with music that I had created.
I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.
I’m a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.
Perseverance doesn’t always mean winning and losing. Perseverance means showing up and rising to the occasion and performing.
And I’m not a personality; otherwise I’d be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need.
Performing on Broadway is an honor and a challenge for any artist.
I like film, and I like Broadway; I just love performing, so whatever God has for me, I’ll be happy to just try it and see what happens because no matter what, if I’m performing, I’ll be happy.
I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn’t graft permanently.
You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.
