Top 1200 Performing On Stage Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

Standup led me to acting because I liked standup, and I saw people on a stage, and the closest, nearest thing to me was doing plays. It was like, that's the same thing as standup - people are on a stage; they're being seen and saying things - so, because of my love of standup, I moved towards acting.

I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.

When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.

Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre believed that man has no such eternal nature to fall back on. It is therefore useless to search for the meaning of life in general. We are condemned to improvise. We are like actors dragged onto the stage without having learned our lines, with no script and no prompter to whisper stage directions to us. We must decide for ourselves how to live.

My first job out of CalArts was performing monologues at the Women of Faith conferences across the country.

It's all very well making records, but the joy of performing is that you get to meet people who give you instant feedback.

I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.

I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.

When I was in high school, I was so in love - as I should have been - with the performance aspect of theater and just the literal act of performing.

I feel nervous before performing in live concerts, but it does not last more than five minutes.

I would see musicians performing at weddings and bar mitzvahs, and I knew that at the very worst I could do that.

If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.

When the audience resonates with my music and sings every single word from the song, the high of performing live is unmatched.

It was an incredible experience performing for the members and attendees at the Diamond Resorts Invitational; it was such an impressive event, and I was honored to be a part of it.

You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?

I have a good time performing for girls. I think the guys will come when I grow up musically. We'll see.

I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

I was always into performing and dancing as a kid and acting was a safe place to have all my feelings, which is good as a child.

I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.

Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.

Performing of any kind: singing, acting, dancing. I also get really excited during interviews.

I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing musicians, so that's what we do.

I don't really understand it: in real life, I'm often so shy - paralysingly so - but when I'm performing, it's totally different. I feel free.

When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.

The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that's why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I'm walking off the stage. I wonder if they'll let me go another hour. That's why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.

If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed.

It's your worst sin saving your f***ing life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way to make their way inside; Life doesn't rhyme. Still, life is poetry, not math. The whole world's a stage, but the stage is a meditation mat. You tilt your head back; you breathe. when your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

Theatre is for you if you truly want to act and test yourself. There is no room for error as you are performing in front of a live audience.

Performing in front of a live audience can be pretty intimidating, so having a full head of hair was important to me.

A lot of times when I'm performing a song, it tends to take me back to where I was psychologically as the lyric was being written.

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.

Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.

Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living.

When you know that if you are not performing well there are three or four others who can replace you, it automatically boosts me to work harder.

It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.

When you're performing on Broadway every night, you're so much more accessible to people in the industry. Everybody is going to know who you are.

I've started to get used to traveling a lot and performing, but still everything has grown so quickly and is very exciting!

If you are just a drag-flicker, you may some time be out of the team because you're not performing well.

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.

I have generally loved performing in Pune and in Maharashtra. I find the audience here fun-loving, erudite and honest.

I don't think you can be a good actor and want to please, because so much about performing and acting is surprising people.

If I'm not performing on the field, if I'm not doing what's expected of me, what I say or attempt to get across to anyone else has no credence.

When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before.

Anybody who was a politician at one stage - when they were at the "I'd like to be a train driver" stage of their lives - must also have thought: "I'd like to make the world a better place if possible." So, I think that's why most politicians go into it. They don't want to take over the world and most go into it for good reasons and then, presumably, are beset by endless things stopping them from following their natural inclination to do the right thing.

I do, have done and always will believe that I am very capable of performing and thriving at any level of the sport.

I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.

And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need.

I realised, however, that you can't sing when you're playing the violin - or at least I can't - and as that aspect of performing is important to me I shifted to the piano.

Sleep might be the most important aspect of building a great business, and having a high-performing body.

I have grown up now... with so much experience in life that I keep incorporating in my expression while performing.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

I grew up always wanting to be a dancer and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways.

Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated changes, during which they often acquire organs which have no function, and which, after remaining visible for a short time, disappear without leaving a trace ... To the Darwinian, the explanation of such facts is obvious. The stage when the tadpole breathes by gills is a repetition of the stage when the ancestors of the frog had not advanced in the scale of development beyond a fish.

I think the most important thing is to establish myself as an actor. As much as it's a performing art, I'm not really a performer.