Top 1200 Performing On Stage Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I come from a family rooted in the arts, so I think I naturally gravitated towards performing from an early age.

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

I guess you could say the beginning of my career as an actress was when I started performing in music videos.

There's only one way to train, and that's being in the ring. And even in practice, it's not the same as performing in front of a crowd.

Most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I'm not a great guitar player by any means. I'm not a great instrumentalist. I play piano on stage. I don't play guitar on stage, but I use it to write quite a lot.

Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.

I love performing, and I was a dancer and then worked in the NFL and NBA, and I loved being in front of the crowd.

The best part about performing is when you can fill the room with energy and you get that vibe back.

I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.

Living and performing in New York has allowed me to try my weirder and more experimental things.

To say I was near our president, performing at the Nobel Peace Prize... I think that's an amazing thing.

I was really a very ambitious young girl when I started studying drama and performing art.

I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.

I don't ever recall being nervous before performing because I've already stepped into the shoes and the clothes of the character.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

Figure out a way to get back onstage because once you do it a few times you'll get over it. Unless it's like a clinical thing. I don't know about clinical like stage fright, that might be worse than what I'm talking about. But if it's normal stage fright get over it.

I'm practically an actor. Even when you do an interview, it's like you're performing a little bit, so yeah, I'm enjoying it, it's fun.

I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.

If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.

From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

It is always a good thing that whoever is getting a chance in the playing XI has been performing well.

Performing was always my thing, so when I act with another co-actor, perhaps that is why I never feel intimidated.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it - no matter where it is.

It took a while of performing and pushing the boundaries and starting to involve the audience to feel comfortable.

I'm hoping to work on some original songs and to keep performing in front of a crowd as much as I can.

I truly get very emotional when I am performing and see their (Fans) love for me.

I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.

The stage is like a magnifier of thoughts and emotion and vibration; that's what the stage is incredible for because it makes you live other lives. It makes you experience other emotions. It makes you feel more beautiful or more alone or more angry. It makes you feel much more, more, more.

And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your act. Whatever is happening in your life is what's going on on stage. So if you're angry in your life, then that's going to be on stage. If you're looking for the guy that's just going to make you laugh for an hour and forget about, that's me.

Content is what's super important and people want to see you performing your records. That has a stronger impact.

At every sound check, I try to practice on the stage that we're gonna play on that night, 'cause every stage is different. Whether it's concrete or whether it's plywood or whether it's Plexiglas, it all requires different things. You can't dance on concrete as well as you can dance on Plexiglas.

I love performing for kids, but you can't play down to them, of course. Then it would be 'Captain Kangaroo.'

I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.

I was always a performing arts kid in general - but I felt like my ultimate goal was to be an actress and be in films.

Broadway is obviously a dream come true, but audiences everywhere continue to make performing a blast.

Sometimes performing someone else's song is more difficult than writing your own.

It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.

Born in the Village. My mom still lives on Bleeker Street. I went to the performing arts high school.

I think stopping any Muslim artist from performing at Ramlila is a cheap gimmick to gain publicity.

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

As far as the performance aspect, I'm going to be an actor. I still love performing, but I'm moving into more acting.

There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that.

I'm going to be writing and directing my own videos, and performing in them too, and I'm super-excited about it.

A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.

When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to... I finally feel like myself.

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

In theatre there is a certain discipline that you have to follow, and you have to be experienced to be performing in front of a live audience. It is satisfying to me.

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

I always loved performing, but my parents were very practical, middle-class Jewish people.

All modesty aside, I think I'm good at reading scripts. The way I read a script is as fast as I can, all in one sitting, and I don't read many of the stage directions. I only read enough stage directions to let me know where I am, because they're always so verbose and mostly horseshit. So I only read the dialogue, which allows me to see the movie in my mind's eye in real time.

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

When I was eight, I started what could be considered my first business, performing magic shows in Mexico City.

After all, I'm religious, and if my mother knew I was performing in the nude, she would have had a heart attack.

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.

I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.

An illusion has been created that Gujarat is the top performing state in the country in all facets. But that is not true.

A bubble in early-stage funding means maybe there's $300 million at work when maybe there should be $150, as opposed to a bubble in late-stage funding which means there's $20 billion at work when there should be $3.

I love performing, signing autographs, taking 'selfies' with the fans. This is just what I feel like I was born to do.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing".