“Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.” DoneKidsPassionEnjoyStagePerformingPerforming On Stage Author:Haley Reinhart
“I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.” YearsFirstsAgeStageNew YorkFirst TimeFairsPerformingBrooklynPerforming MusicBrooklyn New York Author:Theophilus London
“I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be a Domestic Goddess."” RememberMiddleStagePerformingPunkGoddessPitsMics Author:Roseanne Barr
“I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.” FeelsEnjoyAudienceStageCoffeeCupsPerformingCoffee Cup Author:Lyle Lovett
“You start out performing because it's fun, then you learn more things and you want to do more than go "Na-na-na-na" on a stage. The production end is interesting, writing is interesting, and you learn to coordinate all these things.” WantWritingEndsFunInterestingStageProductionsPerformingCoordinates Author:Grace Slick
“It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.” LongParentActingCompanyCareersPlayerFeetLandStageIndiaEnglandPerformingCourtesyUp And Down Author:Felicity Kendal
“Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.” PurposeSongChanceAudienceStageEmotionalSingingStartingPerformingConnectingPerforming On Stage Author:Naturi Naughton
“I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.” PeopleHardPlayWantedJusticeRolesStudyStagePerformancesWingsExcitedActressesRangePerformingRhymeKimSwaggerDialectStage PerformanceLil Kim Author:Naturi Naughton
“I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.” PeopleKidsImaginationRoomsStageFrontsMy FamilyActiveMaking MoneyPerformingLiving Room Author:Laura Bell Bundy
“Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.” LittlesStageEntertainmentPerforming Author:Olivia Holt
“Performing onstage is all about reacting in a grand way. You're playing an arena of seventeen or eighteen thousand people and it's your job to make sure the person at the back feels as cool as the person all the way in the front. Being on stage is a bit of a façade. You get to walk out there and be the coolest version of yourself that you could possibly have imagined and then you come off stage and you're just like everyone else.” PeopleWayFeelsPersonsJobsBitsWalksStageFrontsThousandVersionsPerformingArenaEighteenReactingSeventeen Author:Justin Timberlake
“I've got three sons, and two of them would absolutely hate being on the stage and never liked appearing in their school plays or musicals, but the middle one absolutely loves it and never shows any sign of nerves or pressure and really gets a kick out of performing. I think it depends entirely on the child. And that applies to anything whether it's sport or entertainment or music or film.” ThinkingChildrenTwoPlayShowsSchoolFilmHateThreeSportsMiddleStageSonDependsPressureEntertainmentPerformingKicksNervesAppearingSchool PlaysThree Sons Author:Piers Morgan
“When Pixies broke up in 1993, I gave up the drums for the longest time. I hadn't been doing a lot, but I ended up attending a magic convention that initially got me interested. I took classes, bought videos, and practiced relentlessly. I began performing at parties and soon realized that developing an on-stage routine is often tougher than being a musician. I focused my act on magic that incorporated as much science as it did entertainment, which was really satisfying for me.” PartyClassMagicStageMusicianEntertainmentFocusedVideoDevelopingBrokePerformingRoutineSatisfyingConventionsGave UpAttendingBroke UpPixies Author:David Lovering
“I've always loved performing. It was always very exciting for me. I don't get too nervous when I'm playing, but on every stage, it's a little different. I'm always excited, but sometimes, the level of anxiety to perform is greater.” LittlesDifferentSometimesLevelsGreaterStageAnxietyExcitingExcitedNervousPerforming Author:George Li
“That's one of our biggest challenges is finding out how to do that. There are times when you have to scale back. You might be performing on a five-by-five stage in front of 12 people. That's an exaggeration but there are times when you have to turn the corner and do an acoustic set.” PeopleMightTurnsChallengesFiveStageFrontsFindingsCornersScalesPerformingExaggerationAcoustics Author:Alan Powell
“I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.” GivingBelieveLooksGrowingStageRegretPreparedSillyPerformingBe PreparedGrowing OldGrowing Old GracefullyPerforming On Stage Author:George Harrison
“I always saw myself performing on stage and the girls yelling out my name.” GirlNamesSawsStagePerformingYellingPerforming On Stage Author:Prince Royce
“I had a real passion for performing. I craved the attention. I was a goofy kid just like I am a goofy adult. So as soon as I got the bug of getting laughs and getting on stage I just couldn't stop.” RealKidsPassionAttentionLaughingStageAdultsPerformingBugsGoofy Author:Tom Green
“I love being in the studio and singing on stage and performing. It's so much fun. I love every second of it - and I love the way you get to show who you are. I love the way fans are really passionate around the world, so I adore performing and hearing people sing along in different countries.” PeopleWorldWayDifferentCountryShowsFunLove IsFansStageSingingWho You ArePassionateStudiosHearingAround The WorldPerformingAdoreEvery SecondDifferent CountriesWay I Love You Author:Vanessa Hudgens
“Ok so there's no TV shows, no movies going on fine, but I love going on stage and performing stand up so my situation is a little better than someone who's strictly just an actor or actress.” LittlesShowsActorsSituationStageTvsFineActressesPerformingTv Shows Author:Wanda Sykes
“After twenty plus years of performing hundreds of shows a year, I prefer to try things out on stage rather than for friends. I don't see the benefit in that, really.” TryingYearsShowsStageBenefitsTwentiesPerformingPlus Author:Ted Alexandro
“Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how we set 'Teachers Lounge' up.” KnowsPlayNightKnow HowTeacherStageComedianPerformingEvery Night Author:Ted Alexandro
“I become exaggerated, and loud, and obnoxious, and full of the spirit of improvisation. That's one of the weird things about performing, I think that any performer will say the same thing when you're on stage in front of a crowd there's a certain moment when you kind of click into a trance-like state and you just kind of go with it. I love getting into that mode. It's transcendental.” ThinkingKindStatesMomentsSpiritCertainStageFrontsCrowdsLoudPerformingPerformersImprovisationClicksExaggeratedTranscendentalWeird ThingsObnoxiousTrance Author:Wayne White
“I remember performing with the Choir as an instrumentalist when I was still in school and it was wonderful to share the stage with them again more recently in Rhyl and at the opening of the Wales vs New Zealand rugby international at the Millennium Stadium. Here's wishing everyone involved in the Choir every success - I can't wait to perform with you again.” StillsI CanSchoolRememberWishWaitingWonderfulShareStageInvolvedInternationalOpeningPerformingStadiumsRugbyYou AgainChoirNew ZealandMillenniumWalesInstrumentalists Author:Katherine Jenkins
“Now, I want to explain something to you guys. I don't have an ending joke, because I don't tell jokes. I tell real-life stories and make them funny. So, I'm not like the average comedian. They have an ending joke; they always holler Peace! I'm out of here, and walk off stage. So, basically, when I get through performing on stage, I just walk off.” WantRealStoriesGuyWalksStageJokesAverageReal LifeComedianPerformingLife StoryPerforming On Stage Author:Bruce Bruce
“I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.” GivingWantedStageOne DayGiving UpPerformingNever Giving UpPerforming On Stage Author:Mick Jagger
“When you're on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I've done bits where I improv a joke, and people are dying. The next show, I try to repeat it, I can't do it. Because with the first audience that was our moment. It can't happen the same way again. We were all there: a certain type of people were at that show and we all got it.” PeopleWayTryingFirstsI CanDoneMomentsShowsHappensCertainNextBitsAudienceStageDyingTypeJokesPerformingRepeatsOne Time Author:J. B. Smoove
“In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.” PeopleDifferentSongWorryStageStudiosPerformingConnecting Author:Mary J. Blige
“I think everything about it. Just the experience, but mainly performing live for people. I think if it wasn't for playing in front of audiences, I don't think that anyone would want to play music. That's where you get all your gratification. It's just something else to be up on stage, playing music that you wrote and having people enjoy it - and have it mean something to them also.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantMeanPlayEnjoyAudienceStageFrontsPerformingGratificationPlaying MusicPerforming Live Author:Chris Hesse
“Fact is that I played piano and performed, as a young kid, a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . Don't forget I was only eleven-years-old and to be on the stage at that age had tremendous impact on me. Basically love for classical music and performing as a kid on the big stage probably led toward this decision, which meant that music is going to be my big love but also my profession.” YearsFactsBigsKidsAgeYoungDecisionForgetStageMusic IsImpactProfessionPianoPerformingChicagoOrchestraSymphonyClassical MusicElevenSymphony Orchestras Author:Herbie Hancock
“The adrenaline of performing on stage to a crowd - there's nothing like it.” StageCrowdsPerformingAdrenalinePerforming On Stage Author:Shane Filan