They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.
I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school’s talent show.
I was never hungry for this kind of attention; it was the love of performing that got me interested in acting.
Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can’t play a song; maybe I’m hitting on something that I don’t want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it’s the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.
Marie Cornelie Falcon, who lost her voice while performing – singing the line ‘Je suis pret’ – ‘I am ready.’ How much more tragic can you get?
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.
Playing in front of 25,000 people and millions more on television, and performing and doing what I worked so hard to try to accomplish was, in my opinion, the ultimate. Do I miss it? Of course I do.
When you’re performing, you just have to keep pushing through. You’re human, and you’re going to make mistakes. I think even Beyonce has tripped on stage, and she’s Beyonce! We’re all human beings, and sometimes we trip in our high heels! I barely perform in high heels. I don’t know how those girls do it.
I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.
I enjoy performing for heavily armed people. It’s easier than going to Georgia.
I didn’t go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.
Some comedians tell nice jokes that you can tell to your kids. Some use bad words – they work ‘blue.’ If you don’t want to hear a joke that’s blue, you shouldn’t go to a comedy club where a comedian who makes blue jokes is performing.
If I wasn’t performing, I wasn’t alive. That’s the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said ‘Go for it, girl!’
Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing on my own, and listening to my favorite artists growing up confirmed that love for music and made me want to pursue it as a career.
I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high school plays. But when I discovered indie and punk music in high school, those things sort of took over.
I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I’d had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when the stammer started to go. Then I thought: ‘Well, perhaps I can show off now.’
Every day, in every city and town across the country, police officers are performing vital services that help make their communities safer.
My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball… then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.
I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.
I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That’s why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.
The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I’m performing at The Palace Theatre.
When I was 9 years old, I started performing around my hometown of San Antonio, Texas.
Performing doesn’t turn me on. It’s an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.
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.
Although I have been performing in all sorts of ways and roles since childhood, ‘GoT’ is my first proper venture onto the screen.
We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there’s a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he’s playing himself in his daily life, he’s playing a part, he’s performing, just as he’s performing when he plays a part on stage.
I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that’s when I started doing plays and musicals.
I was crazy into performing when I was younger. I was obsessed with the craft of acting, and theatre, and stage. You know the term ‘theatre geek?’ I am the extreme theatre geek.
I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it… I said, ‘This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much’.
You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.
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.
I started salsa dancing with a few different companies and started touring the country. It was fantastic, but I realized that I really wanted to talk every time we were performing. That’s a problem because when you’re dancing, if you stop to talk, that’s not really cool to the other dancers.
I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You’d use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up.
I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.
Performing abroad is ambassadorial.
I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it’s a painful, difficult search within.
I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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.
You gain a level of fearlessness performing when no one’s there to see you.
Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.
I don’t really understand it: in real life, I’m often so shy – paralysingly so – but when I’m performing, it’s totally different. I feel free.
In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don’t know. Often, I do what’s called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It’s bizarre.
I’m tired of being in a band, but I do want to continue making records and performing, at least a little bit. Making the records isn’t always fun. It’s fun to be finished with them. Making beautiful things can be quite painful.
There has to be an interaction of musicians on stage. Otherwise I feel too alone up there. When performing is really good, when it really works, maybe once every 15 shows, it’s very special, and you realize that’s why you do it.
I love performing, and I love the idea of people buying records. I don’t particularly like the idea of people knowing me or thinking they do, but that’s a part of what I choose. I choose not to go to college; I choose to be a singer.
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.
After so many surgeries, I had to modify my game. I know what I can and can’t do in order to keep performing for a long period of time.
Obesity puts our children at risk of developing serious diseases – such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression. It keeps our children from performing their best at school.
Once you get that feeling of winning something and performing at the highest level, you gain that extra confidence to help you set new targets. That is something I have always done, mentally-wise.
