“I was the class clown, but I was a reluctant class clown because I was always and still am somewhat embarrassed by performing. I have terrible stage fright, and I don't like being in front of people.” PeopleStillsClassStageFrontsTerriblePerformingEmbarrassedClownReluctantFrightStage Fright Author:Chris Elliott
“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.” WayIdeasNew YorkGrewGrew UpPerformingDancer Author:Jillian Hervey
“I do a lot of motivational speaking for young performers and kids who really want to get into acting and performing. I always say, to be as versatile as possible, because you never know which skill is going to help you get a role.” KnowsWantHelpingKidsYoungActingRolesSkillsPerformingPerformersVersatileActing And Performing Author:Rachele Brooke Smith
“If I do a lot of television, than I miss theater. If I do a lot of theater, than I miss film. This global thing of performing arts gives me strength.” IfsGivingArtFilmMissingTelevisionGive MeTheaterPerformingPerforming ArtsGive Me Strength Author:Richard Sammel
“I have some sort of performing gene that's just there and I cannot explain it but I want to connect with people through a camera or on a stage. I just can do it. I just have an intuitive sense of it. So I love doing that, I love going into that trance.” PeopleWantCan DoStageCamerasPerformingGenesIntuitiveTrance Author:Wayne White
“I think when you've lived a bit, you read more into the songs. I do, anyway. And you're sort of living the songs rather than performing them.” ThinkingSongBitsPerforming Author:Tom Jones
“There's a difference between performing in Philadelphia to New York as much as a difference between playing in Luton and playing in San Francisco, y’know what I mean?” KnowsMeanDifferencesNew YorkPerformingSan FranciscoPhiladelphia Author:Pete Doherty
“When we graduated [ from Cambridge], we were grabbed right into television. I was grabbed straight into the practice of writing comedy. It was all writing and performing. You wrote something in order for you to perform it.” WritingOrderPracticeComedyTelevisionPerformingCambridgeWriting Comedy Author:Eric Idle
“I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.” WritingTryingLittlesRecordsSatisfactionPerformingPerforming Live Author:Cass McCombs
“Even though I was performing all the time as an actress and I was doing all of these plays as a kid, there's a vulnerability about being a musician that you don't get [when] you perform somebody else's work.” PlayKidsMusicianActressesPerformingVulnerability Author:Lola Kirke
“If you're not an actor, or if you're any other kind of artist, there's this sense that, "I must express this thing." Why make a painting if you don't feel like you have to for something inside of yourself? Why make a song if you don't feel like you have to because there's something that you need to get out? And when you're an actor and you're not performing text that you've written, I think there's this bizarre disconnect with the must-ness of it.” IfsThinkingNeedsFeelsKindArtistSongActorsWrittenPaintingLike YouPerformingBizarre Author:Lola Kirke
“I only auditioned at four schools. I started performing and studying when I was in middle school, and then as I got into high school, it just got more serious. I feel like it became more of a vocation. It became clear to me at that point that I wanted to pursue it.” FeelsWantedSchoolStudyClearFourMiddleSeriousHigh SchoolPursuePerformingVocationMiddle School Author:Zachary Quinto
“I went away to this summer program after my junior year of high school. They used to have this thing called the Governor's School, and they had it for different disciplines - science, math, performing arts. I auditioned and I got accepted, and it was an eight-week program away from home. I went for acting. I was 15, and I turned 16 while I was there, so that was a seminal moment for me. It made me realize the life of it, the discipline of it, and the joy of that discipline, where it was all we did.” YearsArtMadeDifferentMomentsHomeSchoolUsedJoyRealizingActingWeekDisciplineSummerHigh SchoolProgramEightMathAcceptedPerformingGovernorsJuniorsAway From HomePerforming ArtsJunior YearJunior Year Of High School Author:Zachary Quinto
“Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.” WritingNotesNinePerforming Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family.” FirstsWantedSeriousDadFirst TimeMy FamilyHorseMy DadPerformingJockeys Author:Janet Jackson
“When I look at my longterm goals for the rest of my life, there are so many things other than performing that make me happy.” LooksGoalPerformingMake Me Happy Author:Sutton Foster
“I don't think I've ever been personally fulfilled performing. It's kind of a challenging thing; it's more of a sacrifice for the people that I love.” PeopleThinkingKindChallengesSacrificePerformingFulfilled Author:Vince Staples
“I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.” KnowsMenKnow HowBabySceneMen And WomenPrisonPerformingDollsAssemblyInsurrection Author:Indira Gandhi
“In the studio we spend a lot of time working our what materials will work best and also last. We do tests and come back to them years later to see how they are still performing, and this leads our decisions.” YearsStillsLastsDecisionMaterialsTestsStudiosPerforming Author:Patricia Piccinini
“I wanted to be a pro volleyball player, and I fell in love with performance and audience response. The pressure of performing and doing something that I love doing in front of people who were grateful to see it. That relationship sort of worked out to be acting and theatre.” PeopleWantedActingAudiencePlayerFrontsPerformancesPressureGratefulResponseTheatrePerformingVolleyballVolleyball Player Author:Dan Payne
“Everything around you can use. It's like your tools and your material. Whether it's in performing arts like dance, or visual arts, or poetry, a lot of those elements can come and help you, can trigger your creativity. But you have to be open, be aware, and you have to be ready to look.” LooksArtHelpingUseCreativityReadyMaterialsLike YouElementsToolsPerformingVisualsTriggersVisual ArtPerforming Arts Author:Chath Piersath
“I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.” ArtWantedPerformingDancerMuseumsPerforming Arts Author:Chath Piersath
“I got an email from Nick [Kroll] that he and John [Mulaney] were looking to put on the stage show with two of their characters from Kroll Show and could I help at all. And they were doing it [off-Broadway] at the Cherry Lane and they had been performing it at UCB, just sort of testing it out. I worked on it for a little bit downtown and it was a great experience.” LittlesTwoCharacterHelpingShowsBitsStageLittle BitPerformingEmailBroadwayTestingLanesCherriesDowntownGreat Experiences Author:Alex Timbers
“The Saudi, Arabian ruling class, for example, have rights because they are performing a service for Western power, ensuring that oil profits go to the West and not to the regional population. The local gendarmes like Israel, Turkey and so on have rights, at least in their ruling groups. Others do not.” ClassRightsGroupsExampleWestWesternPopulationProfitIsraelOilLocalsPerformingRulingTurkeysSaudisArabian Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think that that's part of how people have responded to The Tiger Rising. It's what I call my dark child. It's gotten sandwiched in between two overachieving, tap-dance-performing kids - Winn-Dixie and Despereaux.” PeopleThinkingChildrenTwoKidsDarkPerformingRisingTigersTap DanceDixieDespereauxOverachieving Author:Kate DiCamillo
“An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection to creativity. It's the thing that you see in any amazing moment that any human being is performing. Whether it's watching Michael Jordan navigating through all these attackers and then suddenly rising up and putting the ball in the most amazing way, or watching an actor on stage playing Shakespeare, but not thinking about the actor anymore or the stage or you or the chair, any of these kinds of moments of transcendence.” ThinkingWayHumansKindMomentsAbleArtistActorsHuman BeingsAbilityCreativityStageConnectionsBallsInstrumentsCleanPerformingRisingChairsTranscendenceJordanMost AmazingRising Up Author:Reggie Watts
“When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true.” TalkingResearchRingsPerforming Author:Reggie Watts
“I split it up into working on the two narrative pieces that can tell a story. The scariest thing was whether I'd be any good performing live again. It was such a long time since I'd done any live work. It's so different for me than recording. Every night my audiences were what I would dream of. You could just feel their support.” FeelsLongTwoDifferentDoneStoriesDreamNightSupportAudiencePiecesLong TimeNarrativePerformingWorking ItEvery NightSplitsPerforming Live Author:Kate Bush
“Performing my show is something I constantly think about.” ThinkingShowsPerforming Author:David Copperfield
“I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life.” MenWorldYearsShowsIllusionPerformingDay To DayDay LifeDay To Day Life Author:David Copperfield
“Before I started rapping and touring I weighed about 160. But by going on the road every night eating fast food, performing every night, partying and drinking I started gaining weight immediately.” NightPartyEatingWeightDrinkingRapPerformingEvery NightTouringFast FoodEating Fast FoodGaining Weight Author:Rakim
“Of course, when you see [ musical numbers] in the movie [Out To Sea ], it's cut into a lot with other scenes, but we shot the number straight through, so here I am doing it, and sitting right in front of me in the audience was Donald O'Connor. And I was, like, "Oh, my God, I can't believe I'm performing a musical number in front of Donald O'Connor," who's one of the greats of the silver screen. But it was a thrilling experience, it really was.” BelieveI CanCoursesNumbersAudienceCuttingSeaFrontsSceneShotsSittingMusicalScreensPerformingSilverThrillingHere I Am Author:Brent Spiner
“Today, Lan Lan is one of my favourite classical pianists.... Years ago I had a great admiration for Arthur Rubinstein but I have no doubt that Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin were also fantastic piano players - though there is no way to listen to them when they were performing.” WayYearsTodayDoubtPlayerYears AgoFantasticPianoPerformingNo DoubtAdmirationFavouriteArthurPianist Author:Richard Clayderman
“I think [song 'Can't Stop Workin'] it's the constant work; performing and traveling. It gets to be a bit of a strain. But if you pace yourself, which I've managed to do, you can go pretty well.” IfsThinkingWellsSongBitsConstantPerformingPaceStrainPace Yourself Author:Neil Young
“The beam in our own eye is harder to detect, although - or more accurately because - to detect it, and remove it, is vastly more important on elementary moral grounds, and commonly more important in terms of direct human consequences as well. Intellectuals have historically played a critical function in performing these tasks, and [Ivan] Illich is right to observe that claims to scientific expertise and special knowledge are often used as a device.” HumansWellsImportantEyeUsedTermMoralSpecialConsequenceTasksDirectFunctionClaimsHarderCriticalPerformingRemoveDevicesExpertiseBeam Author:Noam Chomsky
“I have never had one moment of stage fright and performing has always been a huge thrill and source of enjoyment for me. It's part of my personality.” MomentsStageHugeSourcePersonalityPerformingEnjoymentThrillFrightStage Fright Author:Shakira
“Us going out there and performing our best. That's how I define success. I'm not going to define it for us by the wins and the losses as much as by the effort and how we handle ourselves.” WinningLossEffortHandlePerformingGoing OutDefine Success Author:Jim Courier
“Sometimes performing someone else's song is more difficult than writing your own.” WritingSometimesSongDifficultPerforming Author:Kinky Friedman
“I love performing live, especially when I get in the zone. But the studio is really becoming a place I have grown to love.” BecomingStudiosPerformingZonePerforming Live Author:Judith Hill
“I love performing in any medium, and more the opportunities you have to vary things, the more you learn.” OpportunityMediumsPerformingVary Author:Cynthia Addai-Robinson
“If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the ability to listen to speakers of all different kinds, agnostic ideology, if you don't do that as a university, you are not performing your essential function.” IfsFirstsKindDifferentAbilityResponsibilityAudienceSafeEssentialsFunctionUniversityIdeologyPerformingDifferent KindsAmendmentsSpeakersPlatformsAgnosticFirst Amendment Author:Milo Yiannopoulos
“If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics.” IfsGuyGrowing UpGrowingBasesExtremesPerformingCharacteristicsThat GuyIntroverted Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I love making music and performing for my fans, and I want to be happy and doing what I love still. I'm not taking a moment of this for granted, and if I'm lucky I'll be able to keep doing this. I love it. I'm very happy.” IfsWantStillsMomentsAbleFansLuckyGrantedPerformingVery HappyLove MakingWant To Be HappyI Want To Be Happy Author:Ariana Grande
“Even though I'm not actually performing in the works, I love the theatrical and have this fan relationship to showbiz. And one of the things that's a disappointment to me about art is that it's always a memory of something that happened. So I try to get as intimate or as real as possible.” TryingArtRealMemoriesHappenedFansArt IsDisappointmentPerformingIntimateTheatricalShowbiz Author:Jack Pierson
“We're now the results of our past actions, and in the future we'll be the results of the actions we're performing now.” ActionPastResultsPerformingOur Past Author:George Harrison
“My experiences growing up - my father lived in New York, so I was going out there in the summers and meeting really interesting people and people having what seemed to me to be extraordinary experiences and really taking advantage of these wonderful opportunities. And so I will go - I would go to the big city and watch these people performing onstage and doing television and films. And then I would go back to Hayward, and it just suddenly felt that much smaller and sort of limiting because I had this hyper awareness of how much larger the world was.” PeopleWorldBigsFilmFatherOpportunityFeltInterestingCitiesWatchesGrowing UpGrowingWonderfulAwarenessNew YorkTelevisionSummerAdvantageMeetingsExtraordinaryPerformingGoing OutReally InterestingHyperBig CitiesTaking Advantage Author:Mahershala Ali
“We've long known that firms can pay higher wages if they spend less on workplace safety enhancement. Libertarians ask, "If a worker is willing to accept higher wages in return for his agreement to exercise greater caution while performing his job, why should the government prevent him from making that choice?" It's a rhetorically powerful question, yet it overlooks the fact that the agreement in question will have adverse effects on others.” IfsShouldLongFactsGovernmentJobsChoicesAsksPowerfulPayKnownAcceptingGreaterEffectsWillingReturnHigherExerciseSafetyWorkersLibertarianFirmPerformingAgreementWorkplaceWagesCautionAdverseEnhancementWorkplace SafetyAdverse Effects Author:Robert H. Frank