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“I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.”

Knows Art Music Idiot Performing Resentment Resent

“My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.”

“Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.”

Writing Wells Kind Mean Art I Can Suits Performing Performing Arts

Author:Peter O'Toole

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

Writing Chance Studios Performing

Author:Bobby McFerrin

“I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.”

Long Might Half Records Listening Finished Performing Listening To Music

Author:Michael Nesmith

“Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people. The irony is that it is actually in your best interest to be selfless. The things you do for the benefit of others not only make you feel fulfilled, they increase your chances of living a long and happy life. Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.”

Source: Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life

“Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.”

Action Accomplish Great Things Performing Right Action Before Death

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.”

Acting Capable Screens Performing Extensions

Author:John Cassavetes

“I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.”

Years Art School Actors Acting Teacher High School Studios Performing Auditions Performing Arts

Author:Ellen Barkin

“Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing my sacred duty to my people, but standing guard in the last citadel of collective security? Are they too blind to see that I have my responsibilities to the whole of humanity to face? I must still hold on until my tardy allies appear. And if they never come, then I say prophetically and without bitterness: The West will perish.”

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

Differences Newspapers Former Performing Exposure Public Service Burlesque

Author:I. F. Stone

“I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.”

Audience Performing Partnering

Author:Carrie Fisher

“If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.”

Ifs Way Actors Deals Class Teacher Teaching Performing History Teacher

Author:Richard Dreyfuss

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

I Can Challenges Performing Fascinated Horticulture

Author:Kim Wilde

“Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.”

World Actors Break Streets Performing Dancer Performers Olympics Ceremony Closing Introduction Street Performers

Author:Cuba Gooding, Jr.

“In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.”

People Term Company Function Profit Performing Contribution

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.”

People Heard Luxury Performing Performing Music

Author:M. Ward

“I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing.”

People Faces Performing Live Music

Author:Leighton Meester

“My mom is an art teacher and is very much into the performing arts. What can I say? She is the female in my life and has guided me on how to act and conduct myself. A lot of my strength comes from her.”

Art Teacher Mom Female My Mom Performing Performing Arts Art Teacher

Author:Erin Andrews

“So much of performing is a mind game.”

Mind Games Performing Mind Games

Author:Joshua Bell

“The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.”

Way Best Way Performing Interpretation

Author:Joshua Bell

“I'd love to play a rock star in a movie, but for now, I'm not performing in public.”

Play Stars Rocks Performing Rock Star

Author:Elizabeth Berkley

“I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm so glad I did. I knew lots of people who'd gone there, so I always had my mind set on it.”

People Mind Art School Gone Subjects Glad Performing Mind Set Performing Arts Brits

Author:Katy B

“There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine.”

Years Has Beens Jobs Difficult Imagine Source Pride Right Now Years Ago Performing Presidency Chile Chileans

Author:Michelle Bachelet

“And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.”

Felt Grew Comfortable Grew Up Lawyer Trials Performing Courtroom Trial Lawyers

Author:Scott Bakula

“In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.”

Hate Challenges Love Is Broken Balance Tough I Hate Performing Mum Work Life Balance Life Balance Broken Marriage

Author:Toni Braxton

“I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.”

Art Would Be College Spending Performing My Time Lecturer Performing Arts

Author:Allen Carr

“Before I left for Germany, I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York, which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me.”

Art Dream Bigs School Left New York Mines High School Accepted Performing Germany Very Sad Performing Arts

Author:Nina Arianda

“Going to the theater or having the honor of performing in theater reminds you of your humanity in a very different way. It's a real release and an incredible challenge. But the stage is a dangerous place. You gotta be trained. Plus, crowds like when things go wrong. I think that's part of the thrill. Anything can happen.”

“I have done research about people who think they're doing movements and people - like Madonna and professional dancers - who are actually 'performing' movements. The people who can connect and perform during their workout get results way above and beyond the people who are just going through the motions.”

People Thinking Way Done Results Movement Research Performing Dancer Workout Above And Beyond

Author:Tracy Anderson

“It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.”

People Writing Littles I Can Different Done Kids Night Records Absolutes Tables Performing Ties Every Night Little Kid Different Peoples

Author:Gary Allan

“When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.”

Ifs Years Would Be Acting Five Teacher Stage Decided Performing Five Years

Author:Pauline Collins

“My home is at the WWE. I truly do love performing. The atmosphere here isn't like anything else. It's truly where I belong.”

Home Atmosphere Performing Wwe

Author:John Cena

“I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I'm very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs.”

Writing Young Stage Comfortable Performing Ads Portions

Author:Ricky Jay

“I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.”

People Whole Character Imagination Acting Teacher Huge Mom Amount My Mom Theatre Whole Life Performing Dancer Temporary Entertaining Main Characters Dance Teacher Live Theatre

Author:Natasha Calis

“Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.”

Stage Evening Performing Afternoon Weekend Saturday

Author:Simon Callow

“I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.”

People Thinking Kids Acting Laughing Cry Singing I Realized Enjoyed Performing Making People Laugh

Author:Rob Delaney

“I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.”

Film Stage Performing Rehearsal

Author:Brad Dourif

“And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.”

Way Long Young Process Responsibility Audience Long Time Performing Connecting Great Responsibility

Author:Jackie DeShannon

“When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.”

Thinking Knows Way Trying Records Impossible Figures Fortune Performing Good Fortune

Author:Jackie DeShannon

“In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.”

Play Problem Film Moving Levels Deals Scene Luxury Performing Very Deep

Author:Willem Dafoe

“I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.”

Art Enough School Attitude Performing Ballet Art School Performing Arts

Author:Carmen Electra

“I was performing from the age of three.”

Age Three Performing

Author:Jennifer Ellison

“I love performing on stage the most. It's getting that instant reaction from a live audience. There are no boundaries, you can take your character as far as you want to, you can be the craziest person ever.”

Want Persons Character Audience Stage Boundaries Reactions Performing Instant No Boundaries Craziest Performing On Stage

Author:Jennifer Ellison

“Literally since I could walk... I was performing.”

Walks Performing

Author:Lyndsy Fonseca

“Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.”

Hard Wanted Performing Performers

Author:Melanie Fiona

“Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.”

Humans Memories Party Training Sake Tricks Performing Nurturing

Book:Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Source: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

“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.”

Ifs Want Matter Acting Singing Dancing What You Want Performing Singing And Acting

Author:Ariana Grande

“I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.”

Knows Way Years Problem Five Music Is England Bars Performing Five Years Australia Spain

Author:Andy Gibb

“The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.”

Mean Wanted Jobs Answers Acting Activity Aspect Enjoyed Performing Life Experience Fulfilled Acting And Performing

Author:Gil Gerard

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