Quotes About Experience

I learned a lot just watching people perform.

On 'Sullivan,' you sang live. Not only that, you sang with a 40-piece band. So you had instruments that weren't even on the original record! So this was when the rubber met the road - when you had to really learn how to perform. And it was for 10 or 12 million people. So that was a challenge.

The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.

You should be judged on your performances, not how long you've been around.

There's nothing like live performance.

There are always benefits and good things, bad things that come out of every performance.

I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.

I've lost count of how many times I have performed in Chennai.

When my father was very young, he performed in Billy Rose's Aquacade.

Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.

I painted sets before I ever performed.

I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.

When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd... was just amazing.

I never even thought about being an actor. Somebody asked me if I'd like to learn the craft, and I said, 'Okay.' I was a gymnast in a show at that time, and somebody asked me afterwards one night. I performed as a gymnast for nine years, and then I did acting after that.

You have to learn to sell yourself. I think people forget they need to look at where else they've really performed in their life, where they've been in a place where they were confident.

I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

At 17, I became a member of the Boston Repertory Theatre. I had an opportunity pretty quickly and performed with the theater for six years.