Top 1200 Performing On Stage Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

It's always important for us to record, so if we're not performing live, that's what we're doing.

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

I love performing. There is an ego in me that loves to be in front of people.

Everybody's doing it. When I'm performing and I do the Dougie, the fans lose their minds.

I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.

When I am not acting or performing, I want to keep quiet and not to have a conversation.

It is my great pleasure performing in front of my fans, and I enjoy it a lot.

The stage is the opposite: you are talking loud so you can project to the back row and you know the whole play. In a movie, you are scene-to-scene; you only know the purpose of that scene. On the stage, that is artistic science. It is real, it is loving, it is truthfully you. It is two different formulas to make two different art pieces, but it is all about truth.

There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.

It's not always the fault of the manager when a player is not performing well, I can tell you.

I don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared.

On stage I have to be comfortable because I play guitar so I can't wear too much jewellery, it knocks against the guitar and makes loud noises. I had this big gold eagle necklace which I love but I kept whacking myself in the face with it so had to stop wearing it. I wear things that I can sweat in, basically... it gets really hot on stage.

How does one magnify a calling? Simply by performing the service that pertains to it.

My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.

Being shy personally and performing are two different things.

To be honest, for me, my main workout is when I'm on stage. Even though I make pop music, I don't think I perform in the classic 'pop star' sort of way. I'm very active on stage; I always end up dripping in sweat afterwards. It's always like a full-on, wild performance, so that's pretty much like my exercise, I would say.

We must be willing to change chairs if we want to grow. There is no permanent compatibility between a chair and a person. And there is no one right chair. What is right at one stage may be restricting at another or too soft. During the passage from one stage to another, we will be between two chairs. Wobbling no doubt, but developing.

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

When I started performing, there wasn't Facebook and Social Media was not huge as it is now.

I get really nervous when I'm performing or meeting new people.

Just performing is where I'm happiest, and gets me rid of my troubles and worries.

We are not only one of the largest investment firms but also one of the best performing.

Normally, when I'm not performing or stealing, I second-guess myself; I have doubts.

While dancing you have to be feminine, and performing action requires you to be masculine.

I love making movies, but there's nothing like performing live.

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.

Spain always go into a tournament with the idea of performing the best we can.

Every week we have a concert, what we are performing is my favorite music in the world.

I'm much more confident performing than I am in social situations.

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem impossible if I didn't break it down piece by piece, stage by stage. The best gift you can give yourself is some drive--that thing inside of you that gets you out the door to the gym, job interviews, and dates. The believe-in-yourself adage is grossly overrated.

On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

Performing comedy, you develop a rhythm of ideas and laughs. I live for it.

I think performing has pretty much always been a part of me.

I've always been an anxious performer. I've never liked performing.

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

My mentor, [Ingmar] Bergman, when we worked on stage, he said you can't convince a thousand people at the big stage where we were working. You can't convince everybody, but just pick one every night that you perform for and make sure that he or she will have an experience that alters their life in a more positive way. So, just one every night. That's worth all the struggle and screaming.

Every time I go out on a stage I consider myself very lucky. Because, in a time where people are economically thinking about what to go and see - so, when I am on a stage, and it doesn't matter where I am, that's my favorite show. I come home after and say "That was my favorite show".

Every musician should announce the raga and the sahityam before performing.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

Performing in front of my fans is what I love to do and I hope I get to do it forever.

I've always been involved with the performing arts from a young age.

When you feel like you are performing at your best, it's a beautiful feeling.

Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.

The world of the stage and the performance on the stage usually does not tend to translate very well - it doesn't tend to hold very well - once cameras are on it; it's not like it's terrible or embarrassing or bad anything, but, I, as an actor, would perform a role differently for an audience than I would for just cameras.

I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.

As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

I'd love to play a rock star in a movie, but for now, I'm not performing in public.

I've never quite felt totally comfortable up on stage. I've gotten more comfortable, but drinking wine is a crutch that gives me a little courage. It helps me lose a little bit of the self-consciousness and the awareness of how awkward it is standing on a stage with lights and a bunch of people looking at you while you sing love songs.

I love performing. I shall perform until the day I die.

Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.

I think my craziest Hollywood moment was performing at the Grammys with Stevie Wonder.

Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

I love performing in front of people, no matter where they come from or what language they speak.

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

When I'm on stage, I turn into this rock person. I give everything I have. I sing with emotion, I'm loving it up there, and I think there's a lot of energy. In the same way that I'm open when I speak, I'm that open on stage. I feed off the energy of the audience too, so they're feeling what I'm feeling. And the set up is great - I have two drummers and a bass guy so it's just us four.