Performing Quotes
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That will do them a world of good. It's very difficult for a team on tour when they're not performing. They lost the two Tests, even though we competed and asked questions of the Australians, and there's been no consistency. But winning brings that and today might bring them the confidence they needed.
Allan Donald
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
Stephen Fry
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It's always kind of a bit rough having a camera crew documenting your life. And then you just kind of forget that they're there and you get into the flow of things. And away you go. Everything is real, so there's no performing involved. It's just a matter of a comfort level.
Dean McDermott
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If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband.
Dolly Parton
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Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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To be confident going out and performing, I need to be with my son for as long as possible; then I know I'm happy, and he's happy, and I can go out and put all my energy into performing.
Jessica Ennis Hill
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I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company 'Synergy' in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.
Catherine Mary Stewart
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She loves performing - they end up standing and cheering. She loves being independent, she loves making money on her own. She doesn't need to, but old folks worry about money, and this is one way to keep the paranoia at bay.
Christopher Hart
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If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the ability to listen to speakers of all different kinds, agnostic ideology, if you don't do that as a university, you are not performing your essential function.
Milo Yiannopoulos
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Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time.
Bradley Joseph
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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.
Nina Arianda
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The day I feel like I'm at an office job is the day I'll quit performing in front of a camera.
Marina Ann Hantzis
aTelecine
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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.
Grace Slick
Starship
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I left the band because of a big misconception. I thought I could just take a “back seat” carrying on writing songs without performing!
Jim McCarty
Box of Frogs
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There is a lot of incredible talent out there, however, talent alone is not enough. Being a great singer does not matter, if you are not singing great songs. Having great songs will not be obvious to record executives if they are not professionally produced. Consistently performing those songs extremely well is essential.
Wendy Starland
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I was an adult and I was in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was performing in this cave - they used to bury the plague victims in these caves underneath the streets of Edinburgh, when I got this weird cold sensation up my spine, it gave me this really weird feeling, and then I looked up and there was this white, sudden white shape, that just zapped from me and went straight to the light that was at the back of the room, and I just stopped cold and said to the audience, "Did you guys see that?" No one saw it.
Rhys Darby
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I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs.
Gaetano Pesce
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I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.
Nancy Pearl
