Top 1200 Performing On Stage Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I love performing in the U.K. Everyone is always up for it and brings all their energy to the dance floor.

With performing live, you obviously don't get the luxury of another take, but for me, it is all the same.

To help enable the kind of science Hubble is performing makes my life worthwhile.

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

Performing at Madison Square Garden is a real honor, so we had a lot of fun.

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

When I was seven, I saw 'Sister Act 2,' and I fell in love with the performing aspect of music.

Performing is my passion. Being onstage is at once exhilarating, beguiling, and fulfilling. But it's hard.

If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.

I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace.

I enjoy performing different roles. I never want to get stuck with one character.

I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.

When I'm going about my daily life and not performing, I don't wear makeup so that I can let my skin rest.

I am not a difficult man by any stretch, and I'm saying that with a full and honest inventory going on. I'm not. And I'm not angry on stage. There is a heightening. There is an intensification of the feelings on stage in order to let them carry the room. There is a theatricality about it. The whole thing is oratory, so there's persuasion involved. There's the art of rhetoric involved. And so, with hyperbole and with the desire to really punch the thing home, some of it reads a little more angry.

A method of child-rearing is not--or should not be--a whim, a fashion or a shibboleth. It should derive from an understanding of the developing child, of his physical and mental equipment at any given stage, and, therefore, his readiness at any given stage to adapt, to learn, to regulate his behavior according to parental expectations.

Performing was always something that I actually used to do before I settled in the studio as a composer.

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.

I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.'

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

I got into performing fairly young and went from, like, a shy kid to a total weirdo.

Sometimes when I'm performing, whenever my puppet cracks a joke, it actually makes me laugh.

The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

I can't imagine Jon Cryer performing with the New York Philharmonic isn't one of the signs of apocalypse.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.

I'm used to writing and performing my own material; doing someone else's is refreshing.

When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

I ended up performing on a full time basis and I never got to Julliard at all.

I love performing, and it allows me to be very discerning about what I choose next, thank god.

My most memorable moment was performing at our first concert, Twiceland: The Opening.

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live.

I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

I am not the performing type. I was the one who would cry, throw up or pass out.

Most stand-up comics relish performing 'in one' - solo. They like the autonomy.

Classical is a more refined and structured dance form. Folk is made for celebration. That's not a very competitive dance form. Though you can bring classical on stage, folk becomes limited. Like you would love to do bhangra and garba at parties, but when you see it on stage, it is very limited in terms of movements.

When I was 9 years old, I started performing around my hometown of San Antonio, Texas.

Managing yourself, writing and performing your own music can teach you a lot.

There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage.

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

I have been feeling the love of South Africans since I got crowned Miss South Africa, even before going to Miss Universe. Because of that, while I was walking on the Miss Universe stage, I knew that I was there as one body, but as I stood on that stage, I stood as millions of South Africans.

I'm addicted to the adrenaline of performing, and I think when you're used to having that high, you look for it in other things.

Sleep paralysis is something that is actually very common. Many people have it, I've had it myself. And what happens is, when you're in that REM stage of sleep, your brain is very active. You're dreaming your most during that stage, you're mind, your eyes are moving, there's a lot going on. It's like fireworks going on in your brain.

When I am performing ice immersion, actually I do not think very much. It is all before.

I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.

I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

Performing well's always pleasing, especially when the team gets the win and you can help contribute to it.

I was nine when I started training and performing, my son is even more passionate than I was.

Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the groundlings, among the beggars and rakers of the garbage, profound passion is enacted. And the circumstances that provoke it, however trivial or mean, are no measure of its power. In the present instance the stage is a scrubbed gun deck, and one of the external provocations a man-of-war's-man's spilled soup.

I had gone to the High School of the Performing Arts in New York City.

It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word primarily, and on screen it's communicated through pictures. So it's always been kind of unnatural to take something that lives on the stage and turn it into moving pictures.

I enjoy performing for heavily armed people. It's easier than going to Georgia.

Makes no matter if I'm performing in a grocery store, you're always gonna get 150%.

Performing for live audiences and seeing the fans' faces is a thrill like no other.

I am honestly very intimidated when I meet new people and they expect me to be the onscreen Vir. On stage, I say a lot of things I might never say in real life; I am never the life of the party. People are quite surprised to see that I am more of a quiet artiste off stage.

I've twice been on the point of giving up my performing career to train for the priesthood.

My focus was, and still is, totally on making music, getting on the road and performing live.

I support the boycott because I do not think at this stage there is any other way to make our authorities see and understand because they keep ignoring the rights of their citizens ... and at this stage there is no other way to affect change, because the authorities have taken hostage of the media, so perhaps this boycott can be a symbol of criticism being voiced.

It's hard being away from home. But other than that, performing is the highlight of my day.

I was applying to the art school, but there was a checklist that said I had to do either production design or stage management or acting. I thought, "I don't want to be an actor, but I know production and stage management take acting classes" - this is literally my internal monologue. I was like, "Designers don't have to take acting classes. Cool. I'll check that box".