Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.
My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing a song, which was really scary, but it was fun.
The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do.
I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.
The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.
I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to be paid.
I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.
Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.
My poor sister was forced to be in the plays that I would write. We would go to my grandma's retirement building and perform 'Phantom of the Opera.'
I'm really scared of clowns, and for a while, I was scared to perform and sing in front of a crowd. Also, I'm not a big scary movie guy. They stay with me for a while.
I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.
I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, 'Okay, I'll try it.'
When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
I've always known that performing is what I want to do. There was never a defining moment. I just came out that way.
I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.
I am a professional performer and I only appear on TV for entertainment or for philanthropic organizations, and I consider this a very serious matter that doesn't fit into either category.
I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting.
What I want is that I can match my performances during training so I can be satisfied with myself.
Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.
I gravitated toward stand-up because there's no overhead. I mean, literally, there's no overhead: Often, you're outdoors performing in front of groups of people.
