Performing Quotes

• When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Guy
  • Hair
  • Weird

• The best time to practice mental rehearsal is at night in bed, just before you fall asleep. The last thing you do before you doze off is to imagine yourself performing at your best the following day. You will be amazed at how often the upcoming event or experience happens exactly as you imagined it.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Night

• Marijuana, for me in particular, releases my creative juices. It doesn't work well for performing, but for creating nothing works better.

  

  Steven Barry "Lips" Kudlow Anvil
  • Creative
  • Creating
  • Marijuana

• There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Professional
  • Performing

• Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It's a drag, but necessary.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Changing
  • Performing
  • Drag

• 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.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • People
  • Job
  • Cool

• By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Time
  • Music
  • Road

• I can remember a lot of nights performing in those early years where you felt that you hit some good moments, but a lot of the time you're thinking, "Oh, God, this isn't quite making it." So I think that is what makes you in the end refine your view of things a little bit.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Remember
  • I Think
  • Good Moments

• 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
  • Play
  • Littles
  • Flats

• Performing is the most powerful drug on earth. I get a come-down if we don't gig for a few weeks, it's unbelievable.

  

  Leeroy Thornhill The Prodigy
  • Earth
  • Drug
  • Performing

• I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Happy
  • Performing
  • Turn Me

• It's always been a dream of mine to be Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, and here I am performing alongside Robert Lindsay and being directed by a major Broadway producer. Who said dreams don't come true?

  

  Samantha Bond
  • True
  • Dream
  • Performing

• That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act...

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Love
  • True
  • Pretending

• No matter what you do, it can't be perfect. I told Jack White, 'If I'd 'a sung that song more'n twice, it might of sounded better.' He said, 'Well, it might not of. You might have took the spark out of it.' I don't know if he has a point or not. We'll find out.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Song
  • Perfect
  • Matter

• Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

  

  Bill Gaede
  • Experiments
  • Explaining
  • Predictions

• 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.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Kind

• If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Plans

• 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?

  

  Peter Daniell Doherty Babyshambles
  • Mean
  • Differences
  • Performing

• From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

  

  Heather Dubrow
  • Family
  • Acting
  • Young Age

• We're all performing for someone.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Someone
  • Performing

• I love performing in front of people, no matter where they come from or what language they speak.

  

  Juanes
  • Language
  • Matter
  • Performing

• Performing was terrifying.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Performing
  • Terrifying

• 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.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Writing
  • Young
  • Stage

• To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play to serve the writer and to understand yourself in that context is how you continue to grow and learn.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Night

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