Top 1200 Performing Live Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Black audiences are probably the toughest for me to make laugh. I've gotten pretty good at performing for them, but it's still a challenge.

I had been writing and performing stand-up comedy pretty much the entire time I worked at Google.

I like it when I'm on the stage, but honestly, I would be very happy if I could cut it off, just enjoy my life when I wasn't performing.

I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.

I'm really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl - wish I could relive it all over again.

I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.

Unless we build theater and performing arts, then we're not going to be creating future patrons. We need to make it accessible.

Learning and performing music have been rewarding, both physically and mentally. They helped me to mature and grow as a person.

You need to be in fellowship of a church...If you separate a live coal from the others, it will soon die out. However, if you put a live coal in with other live coals, it will be a glow that will last for hours.

Don't live to be unhappy, live to be happy. If you live to be happy you'll find the things that make you happy. And as you do that you find that sharing with others makes you much happier than taking from them.

I have to keep performing well for club and country. That's what I always want to do. If I do that, then that extra media attention comes towards me.

I want my soldiers - I mean artists - to be young and strong, with tireless energy performing impossible feats of cunning and bravura.

You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.

Performing King Charles in Mike Bartlett's astonishing play in London and New York has been one of the high points of my career.

I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply, I should destroy every scrap, every trace, every notebook and live some other way.

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

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

If I live for self, I can only live for one; if I live for others, I can live for 3,000,000,000.

My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.

All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite. But the most fulfilling is producing.

If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.

Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.

I don't think I've ever been personally fulfilled performing. It's kind of a challenging thing; it's more of a sacrifice for the people that I love.

Consumers in both emerging and developed markets want it all - high-performing products, the right price, and a purpose that they can connect with.

Marijuana, for me in particular, releases my creative juices. It doesn't work well for performing, but for creating nothing works better.

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

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.

Herb Wong was an incredible man. We met when I was performing with Clark Terry at the Wichita Jazz Festival around 1974.

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.

I put my all into performing so people can walk away knowing a bit more about me and feel the passion in my story.

I wanted to stop while we were still getting big hits. The only thing I miss is the actual performing.

In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

When I first started performing, I was a nervous wreck. Honestly, sometimes I felt like I was going to run off the stage.

We should work towards a legislation to sack non-performing politicians. This may not happen during my lifetime, but I will try for it anyway.

We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.

I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs.

I always tweet about where we're at. Since I'm performing at amphitheaters, I'll try to run up and down the stairs and across the field.

I believe that the way we choose to live significantly affects the health of our bodies and the health of our planet. I do my best to eat and live as naturally as possible, but it's not always easy. At the same time, I want to live fashionably and surrounded by the highest quality.

When I look at my longterm goals for the rest of my life, there are so many things other than performing that make me happy.

When touring I get to travel around with my best friends, do a show I love and I'm confident people will enjoy, and have all the adrenalin that comes with performing.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.

Angels are our true and trusty servants, performing offices and works that one poor miserable mendicant would be ashamed to do for another.

My first recollection of performing was shortly after my parents split up, so the logical conclusion to draw is that that affected me.

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.

For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.

With 'Wagon Wheel,' I loved the visual it painted, and it's a song I can truly say I look forward to performing every night.

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

I was hurt when someone on television said that we film people live in an imaginary world and the sportsmen live in reality. I would like to tell them that we live very much in reality and the amount of hard work we do, I doubt anyone in this country can or in the world can do.

Performing in front of an audience gives you an extra ten per cent energy and the chance to react to the instant feedback.

When a plane crashes and some die while others live, a skeptic calls into question God's moral character, saying that he has chosen some to live and others to die on a whim; yet you say it is your moral right to choose whether the child within you should live or die. Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral. When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right.

With all the travelling and performing I've been doing, it's hard to find time to practice! But seriously, I probably did most of my practicing when I was younger.

A lot of people think stand-up comedy is one person performing to an audience, but I love it more when it's a dialogue, an interaction.

Delhi is my favourite city having spent most of my growing up years here. Performing here is like homecoming for me.

When there is a choice, it is best to eat live vegetarian food. 'Live' means in its uncooked condition, because a live cell has everything in itself to sustain life. The idea is to take life into you. When we cook food, it destroys the life in it.

It seems that these phenomenal feats that race car drivers are performing are instinctive. They [require] very little mental workload.

For a little while I kind of shunned away from the media and just concentrated on my skill sets and performing and I got that down.

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

Our soldiers in Siachen are performing their duty with great courage and fortitude, even in extreme conditions and treacherous terrain.

Not one of the creatures of blood can escape death. We all face it, and succumb to it. It follows us like a dark shadow. Yet if we live in terror of it, then we do not live at all. Yes we are born alone, and yes we will die alone. But in between, Tae, we live. We know joy.