Performing Quotes

• 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
  • Summer
  • Europe
  • August

• My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Writing
  • Performing
  • Mixtures

• I've been a comedian for a long time so writing and performing is a big part of what I do. If anybody's doing comedy they should also work on writing.

  

  Colton Dunn
  • Writing
  • Part
  • Comedian

• 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
  • Theater
  • Performing
  • Thrill

• 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
  • Audience
  • Wanted
  • To Do

• There is no greater bliss than dancing and performing.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Dancing
  • Performing
  • Bliss

• I was raised with "Laurel and Hardy" and "I Love Lucy" and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

  

  Steve Martin
  • School
  • Laughing
  • Bedroom

• 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
  • Energy
  • Son
  • Performing

• 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
  • Team
  • Confidence
  • Performing

• 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
  • Money
  • She
  • Independent

• I've always gotten a natural high from performing. I suddenly feel invincible when I step onto the stage. Honestly, I get most of my energy from our fans. They are always so inspiring and they push me to give 200 percent at every show. I always think of myself as a physical manifestation of our music, and our music calls for a performer with a hell of a lot of energy!

  

  Alexis Krauss
  • Thinking
  • Energy
  • Natural

• I still get nervous sometimes before performing.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Nervous
  • Performing

• 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
  • Learn
  • Stage
  • Performing

• 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
  • Office
  • Cameras
  • Quitting

• I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.

  

  Nancy Pearl
  • Laughed
  • Chairs
  • Librarian

• 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
  • Feelings
  • Cold
  • Victim

• There will never be a successful person who, before performing a task, has doubts. Negative thoughts arise from recognizing that somewhere along the line your level of commitment has dropped below 100 percent. The winner will always be the person with the fewest doubts.

  

  Nicole Haislett
  • Thoughts
  • Performing
  • Doubts

• 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
  • Obvious
  • Incredibles
  • Essentials

• Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

  

  Cathy Rigby
  • Alone
  • Like
  • Golf

• 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
  • Band
  • Performing
  • Left

• I feel like once you go with a band, it's hard to go back. I just don't see myself performing without a band.

  

  Syd
  • Band
  • Back
  • Performing

• I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

  

  Kay Boyle
  • Happens
  • Difficulty
  • Household

• 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
  • Would
  • Performing
  • Feeding

• 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
  • Different
  • Essentials
  • Amendment

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