Quotes of: Performing Keyword

If I'm performing with a DJ, it's all on me to draw the energy. I like the camaraderie of a band.

Talib Kweli

I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.

Trevor Nunn

I've been dancing since I was seven, but I never really developed a regimen until I was on Broadway and responsible for a professional performance every night.

Kate Levering

Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, 'You are so brave.'

Laura Benanti

There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.

Lindsay Hartley

My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

Laura Mvula

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.

Moby

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

Madonna Ciccone

Love is 100% percent practical, oral performance is an ultimate turn-off, whether you like it or not.

Michael Bassey Johnson

I arrive at the theatre four hours before the beginning of the performance. I must get accustomed to the hall even if I know it well.

Mireille Mathieu

If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment.

Mohammed Morsi

Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.

Marilyn Nelson

I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.

Rue McClanahan

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

Ralph Richardson

I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.

Romeo Santos

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

Ronnie Spector

I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.

Sean Astin

Right before I go on stage, I'm absolutely terrified. My mind darts at many directions, but the center of me is going forward into the performance.

Sarah Brightman

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

Shelley Berman