Performing Quotes

My background was in performing originally.

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.

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

I was performing from the age of three.

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.

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.

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

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.

Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

We're performing several shows in the Canary Islands.

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

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.

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.

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.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

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.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

I persist in performing.

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

When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.

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.

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.

The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.