Top 1200 Performing On Stage Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I'm a ham for this stuff.

I'm brave and fearless when I'm performing, but in real life, I'm actually quite prudish.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

I do like performing 'I'll Take Your Man,' because that was a hard song.

There's nothing better about being a musician than live performing.

I just always had a penchant for performing for people.I'm a jackass clown.

I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces.

My way into everything was through the theater. There are so many plays that I saw growing up that just made me realize that I wanted to be on stage doing that. So it was definitely through ballet, and then stage, and then theater and acting. And then I kind of made my way to film.

The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment.

When people performing on the public's behalf feel intimidated, it's a sorry affair.

I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.

I love performing, and connecting with an audience never gets old for me.

As far as dancing was concerned, I always wanted to do it. To actually be performing was thrilling for me.

I would say the three stages of making a film are the initial 'are we gonna do this,' 'how much will I be paid,' is there a lot of nights, who's it going to be with? The second stage of doing a film is how much fun your going to have doing it. The third stage is was the film a hit?

I started performing as a stand-up comedian on my own in the mid-1990s.

I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.

Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the better person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.

Performing in front of the camera is a different thing, and shooting a whole film is another.

Performing a song is intense. When I see people connecting, it makes it all worthwhile.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

The adrenaline of performing live in front of an audience is a feeling that's hard to replicate.

Recording and performing 'Replay' was a learning process throughout, as we focused on the details.

I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything.

I enjoy the New Year best by performing in front of a huge crowd.

I've done the performing monkey stuff and massive breakdowns, it's just they weren't documented.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

I love performing so much! The joy is to have the opportunity to be able to perform all around the world.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

If I'm performing with a DJ, it's all on me to draw the energy. I like the camaraderie of a band.

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.

I've always wanted my fans to love me for coming out and performing.

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.

Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It's a drag, but necessary.

I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.

I remember when I was a kid and I used to go and see Queen play live. It was like there was Queen the album band, and then Queen the four dudes on stage playing the songs on stage, and it never lacked anything to me when it was just the four dudes playing the big songs.

Performing is always my biggest rush. The energy is boundless from a great crowd.

I don't like to think about others losing or not performing well. No, no - I'm not that kind of person.

No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.

I'm the youngest of three sisters. We were always performing plays for each other.

This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.

Everything that came to me, in terms of the ritzier side of performing, was a plus.

My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing.

Being a dancer myself, I can understand the travails of youngsters performing in 'Magadheera.'

I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.

What's cool is that Oprah is the same person on stage and in front of a camera as she is off stage and behind the scenes. She speaks the same way on camera as she does off camera.

We've taken some performing arts schools on the set of 'Breaking Bad.'

If I hadn't gone on the road with Patti LaBelle, then I wouldn't have brought Jay-Z on the road with me. When I saw her leave the stage to change clothes and allow the background singers to keep the show going, I said, 'That's something I wanna do.' So in the middle of my show, I would leave the stage and Jay-Z would come out and rhyme.

I did a lot of theatre in school and loved performing in front of people.

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

Obviously when the players are performing well in training, they will have a chance to play.

Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil rights. He showed me how to take her [holding her delicately by the wrist]. He said, ‘put your hand on top.’ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage.

I have enjoyed all mediums; in fiction you are performing in front of a camera, there is no live audience.

Some people want to feel comfortable when they're performing; I'm kind of the opposite.

I can certainly be surprised by turns a story takes, but usually not once I'm actually in the writing/drawing stage. In the plotting stage, anything can happen. That's why I try to finish that part before I start writing. I may be exaggerating here - I'm sure there are times when I think of something part-way through that changes the story, but the ultimate outcome doesn't change. Or not yet. It could always happen.

Performing was easy because I believed that I could sing, but that was an outside thing.

There was a while when I got really bad stage fright and I basically felt...I was incredibly angry. I felt like everything had been taken away from me and it was at that point that I realized how much doing stand up reminds me of my self love and curiosity about myself and love of other people because I don't go on stage to dominate.