Top 1200 Performing On Stage Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do it.

In the U.K. and Ireland, crowd-work is a big thing. It shows you how funny someone would be if you met them off-stage. Americans don't care if you're funny off-stage. They want to see the writing; they want to see the work you did.

I studied performing arts at college and wanted to act.

And you know what - and I don't mean this in tongue in cheek way - but it's like deja vu. When I walked in to WCW they were producing wrestling on a little teeny sound stage at Disney, okay? I'm walking into TNA and they're producing wrestling in a little teeny sound stage at Universal.

I'm a Gemini, so there's two people in me. Straight up. There's the nerd who is totally zoned out in the studio, EQ-ing this kick drum, raising this snare one decibel, or swapping this high hat out for another. Then there's the other side who's a performer. I have to go out on stage and be electric, a fire cracker, just run around the stage and give a show.

I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was around 7, and my choir teacher at school asked me if I would sing it. My parents told me that I needed to move around the stage, so for the entire time I just walked back and forth from side to side while I was singing - there's videotape of it.

During my first season at Manchester, the team was not performing, and I was the scapegoat.

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

I really enjoyed performing there. Dubai is a very rocking place.

Drake and I have built a relationship, vibing and performing together.

I feel like I'm always performing in Vegas around Christmastime.

If you feel too comfortable while you're performing, you're probably not doing it right.

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. Its exhilarating!

Accept your loneliness. It is one stage, and only one stage, on a journey that brings you to God. It will not always last. Offer up your loneliness to God, as the little boy offered to Jesus his five loaves and two fishes. God can transform it for the good of others. Above all, do something for somebody else!

There is nothing wrong in performing rituals according to one's beliefs and culture.

I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.

I'm not one of these guys who is dedicated to playing or performing - that's just one facet of my life.

When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more, but some old timers say it is to keep the ghosts away. Others say it lights the stage for the ghosts to play. Whichever theory one adheres to, most people agree: a great theater is haunted.

I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

Performing was how I was able to release this pain I had.

Live performances are exhilarating, especially when performing for a young crowd.

Every actor believes in his way of performing.

To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself.

I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.

When I come off stage, I just shut up. I try as best I can not to use my voice at all. You know I love to talk, but I try when I come off stage to have the minimum amount of vocal interaction because I need at least a good 10 hours to just recover from my form of extreme singing.

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.

I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.

I always had something to think about or draw from, which as an actor is a gift. The beautiful thing about film is that it gets so much closer than stage. I love stage and that's what I started doing and it's a beautiful art form in of itself, but in film you can move your eyes to the side and somehow the audience can fill in the blanks of what you're thinking.

This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits it, and in what stage it dwells there, and the manner of its quickening and feeding, and its growth, and what interval there is between one stage of growth and another, and what thing drives it forth from the body of the mother, and for what reason it sometimes emerges from the belly of its mother before the due time.

From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

Music is the embodiment of my soul. When I play, I'm not performing a song: I'm becoming it.

If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.

I think acting is the most difficult one among all the performing arts.

When you get the rush of live performing, it's hard to give that up.

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!

The pressure has increased; I have to practise more and keep performing better.

Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously.

Once you've gotten used to performing, you can't give it up.

I love performing live: it's my very favorite thing to do.

Once you go on stage you're essentially creating the world that people want to participate in. The worst thing you can do is go out on stage with the idea that you're going to communicate something you've learned and if you do it really well, they'll approve. If you go out in an approval process, you will be so nervous and so preoccupied you'll never get to the heart of what it is you want to make music with.

As a performing artiste, we always need love and support from family.

I never knew that I would be performing on talk shows with Sia.

We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare Music,' to write something for TV was our original inspiration. But all the stuff we were writing down is not going to work on stage. We had to rewrite it so it would work on the stage.

Performing for people who are being paid to enjoy themselves? It's wonderful.

Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

I like wearing fitted jackets mixed with jeans, a button-down shirt and a tie. I like to keep the rock and roll feel but class it up a bit. As far as stage clothes, I prefer John Varvatos and All Saints. They have clothing that is really accessible for wearing every day as well as for wearing on stage. I also love J. Lindeberg's suits.

I deal with the depraved, the sick, the pathetic, the disturbing and the profoundly depressed. I will try it all on. I will try on what I am and what I never want to be. And everything I wanted to be, but never can be. I can be a supermodel, or your worst nightmare. Off-stage, I just get to leave it, and nobody thinks I'm like that. This is what prevents me from being a psychopath and a sociopath, my time on stage.

The whole idea of performing before an audience is fun and organic.

I didn't like being out in the limelight. I love performing, but that's it.

The beautiful thing about stand-up advice is that it applies to anybody, any gender, any race, any age. The best thing you can do - everybody will tell you - is get on stage as much as you can. I would add to that: get on stage as much as you can - with the people you admire.

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

Getting to do shows with Lady Antebellum, Keith Urban, and Sam Hunt is just awesome. It's so inspiring because I grew up such fans of Lady A and Keith, and to be able to sing my songs on the same stage as them and then stand side stage and watch them is just a really special thing.

I like show business - performing. I can't think of anything better.