Quotes About Performing

What religion cannot do, GRACE does! Grace empowered obedience beats striving and performing any time!! Every time!!

From the time I was a little kid, I was always shy. Performing was when I was outgoing. So I guess I am a loner. I get claustrophobia if a lot of people are around.

But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!

And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

I've played some good guys as well, in Spartacus, Paths of Glory and my favorite picture, Lonely Are the Brave, so I had a mixture of parts in my life.

If you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you are doomed to become an actor.

I always have been an entertainer, whether it's been joking or performing for people. And I always thought I had a talent, because I could rap and I could sing, and I did write. And all the other kids were going to college, but I just felt like I had to do this first, and if it didn't work, then I would go to college.

I feel like it's been so crazy to get to open for people like Rascal Flatts, Lady A, Billy Currington.

I've worked with little kid actors before, and when they start crying or anything like that, it makes my job so easy, because you react. A little kid crying, there's not much else to do.

I was one of the good-looking, educated actors, and that is like a disadvantage in theatre!

I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.

When you tour as much as I do, you're always on the road, and you tend to gravitate toward cities where you're like, 'Every time I'm in that city, the shows are fun.'

Every time somebody would ask me what I want to be when I grow up, I would always say, 'I want to be on Broadway!'

So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.

I wonder what it was like to be an actor years ago. We're so respected now and I don't think it does us any good. We used to be vagabonds. I want to be a vagabond!

My parents were in Vaudeville, in musical. And I would tour with them and had a couple of wonderfully lucky breaks in England.

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.

I get them [auditions] from time to time, and I sometimes get auditions for big dramas, and I often think, well, I'm not going to get that part. This was a big surprise - it was The X-Files.

Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands.

I have done a lot of reality shows. In fact,my first show was 'Shava Shava', which was a singing reality show.

The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.