I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to ‘Talk Soup,’ where I was writing and performing for TV.
I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it’s all make-believe.
What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.
Performing at the TMCF Awards Gala is so exciting.
Well, I would definitely give up performing… But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it’s just hilarious. I would miss that.
I always assumed I’d spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.
My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is pretty rational and sound. And I’m the quiet one! It’s very different from my performing life.
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn’t there in the score.
Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I’m never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone’s the celebrity of their own life, you know?
When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious. I still get nervous sometimes before shooting and definitely before big auditions.
I’m in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I’m most excited about.
I’d love to do Broadway or the West End. I’m sure doing eight shows a week is gruelling, but I did a lot of stage shows in Sydney and I love performing live.
I’m from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It’s right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.
Everything that came to me, in terms of the ritzier side of performing, was a plus.
I’ve always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.
Comedians sometimes forget that there’s an audience. You gotta be conscious that you’re performing for other human beings.
I still enjoy performing, whether it’s in front of two people or 2,000 people, but it’s not fun once you leave the big show.
I enjoy performing, always, but when you’re taping a gig, you’ve got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that’s surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won’t be able to do anything.
I’m kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That’s how I get out my shyness.
Life does not measure up to performing… Performing is perfect.
One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it’s opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.
I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she’s performing, the audience is just in awe of her.
If I’m performing with a DJ, it’s all on me to draw the energy. I like the camaraderie of a band.
I’m a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it’s opera or whatever. As long as it’s good and it feels good, I’m going to cling to it.
Usually, when we’re performing ‘What About Your Friends’ or ‘Waterfalls’ comes on, they all know the dance. It’s like a sea of TLC dancers in the audience! It’s so beautiful to see. I just love it so much.
When I lived in Paris, I would shop at antique shops and buy these huge coats because I was very cold. And then I started performing in them because I felt safe. I never stopped doing that.
Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I’ve always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it’s in my blood.
I do love live performing, but I’m not a stand-up naturally, and I don’t like the lifestyle of working just in the evenings at clubs and stuff – not a natural gig-er.
I think the Apollo has always been the people’s performing arts center and reflected the community, whether it is Stevie Wonder or Tito Puente.
I started out as a dancer as a kid; I’ve been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.
I would have been a nightmare in any kind of office, because I wouldn’t have had any friends in any environment other than performing.
I love being in a room in front of an audience who cares about the music, who knows the music, and who has lived with the music. It’s kind of like an experience you share. I’m on stage performing it, but they’re singing the words, too.
When I’m performing, sometimes a lyric will touch on my personal life, and it can be difficult to sing. For instance, when I sing ‘How I Love You,’ I’ll choke up.
I didn’t know how interested I was in performing until I did ‘Darkplace.’ I hadn’t done anything really up until that point. I didn’t mind the cameras, and I didn’t know that I would enjoy it.
We are not only one of the largest investment firms but also one of the best performing.
Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
Six years after I wrote the first draft of ‘Plan B,’ I received my first paycheck as a writer. It included both the $3,000 in deferred option money as well as half the fee for performing the initial rewrite. The amount was scale according to the Writer’s Guild guidelines, but a lot, according to me.
It’s a big jump from League One, but I’m confident in my ability, and I can’t thank the players enough for how they’ve helped me settle in and for the way I’m performing.
In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you’re doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.
I’ve always seen myself as one of those ‘show people.’ My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.
I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.
As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
Performing tai chi in space – it is comfortable; we got more outer space chi.
I think acting is the most difficult one among all the performing arts.
It took a while of performing and pushing the boundaries and starting to involve the audience to feel comfortable.
There’s always a pressure on performing the best.
When I was little, I always wanted to grow up to be like Jessalyn Kincaid and Vanessa Severo. They showed me how much joy performing can give you.
Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.
And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.
I was excited to play Lil’ Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.
My roots are on the live performing stage, so while I enjoy making films and the other things that I do, when I get on stage, I feel at home; I’m comfortable.
I realised, however, that you can’t sing when you’re playing the violin – or at least I can’t – and as that aspect of performing is important to me I shifted to the piano.
There’s something about doing theatre in London – it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It’s something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.
Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.
With songs, it doesn’t matter what song it is; every time I go out and perform it, it’s like the first time I’m performing it, the first time I wrote it. If it’s not, then I’m not going to do it that night.
Literally since I could walk… I was performing.
I secretly nurtured the idea of being in show business but was always terrified of it. I had every fear you could possibly imagine associated with performing.
I feel sexy when I’m doing what I love – like when I’m singing or performing or something – that’s when I feel the most in control and in my element.
