The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.
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 fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
I have been performing and touring and doing shows all over the world. But it's really something special to get back on the U.S. cast of 'Stars on Ice.' It's something I let go because of family commitments.
My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor.
I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.
To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.
Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.
Think about it - pro wrestling as an Olympic sport would be pretty cool. Look at figure skating or gymnastics - what is it? It's a choreographed performance that is judged.
Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble.
If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works.
It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards.
I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.
My home is at the WWE. I truly do love performing. The atmosphere here isn't like anything else. It's truly where I belong.
The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.
I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.
My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress.