Performing Quotes
- Page 2It's fun when you're winning and performing well, but it's also hard because now you get older, you got responsibilities.
Rau'Shee Warren
I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I'm more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can't quite explain.
Melanie Chisholm
Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.
Helen Reddy
I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.'
Rita Rudner
I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing.
Torrie Wilson
For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.
Payne Stewart
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.
Haley Reinhart
And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.
Jimmy Buffett
You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.
Rick Danko
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.
Jennifer Ellison
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
Robert Shea
I'm a fan of making films. Whether I'm on stage or in front of a camera, one of my first loves is performing for the people. I'd like to do more acting.
Busta Rhymes
Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.
Henry Rollins
I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.
Toni Braxton
We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.
Fred Frith
When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.
R. Kelly
You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid.
Harry Connick, Jr.
I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.
Tom Wopat
I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.
Patti LaBelle
I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.
Erykah Badu
They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.
Erik Estrada
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.
Norman Wisdom
I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.
Rose Byrne
Know that there is so much more to you than your body. It's not just about perfecting the steps; you must trust your instincts to tell deep, emotional stories through the steps that you are performing.
Karen Kain