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Quotes About Performing

I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.
~ Marcus Brigstocke
But now the question arises, Why has God demanded of man that which he is incapable of performing? The first answer is, Because God refuses to lower His standard to the level of our sinful infirmities.
~ Arthur W. Pink
I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.
~ Gene Wilder
Here are just a few activities highly accomplished professional musicians consider to be practice, not in any particular order: Listening Performing Watching others perform Playing informally Improvising Teaching Composing Group rehearsal
~ Jonathan Harnum
The judgment, criticism, and rejection you face as an actor can be overwhelming.
~ Lacey Chabert
I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing.
~ Laura Dern
I live in Jacksonville, Florida, but Atlanta always feels like the hometown gig.
~ Derek Trucks
Usually when my music drops, I can go to my hood, I can hear people playing it. Now it comes from performing it, people knowing it and stuff. It's crazy!
~ Roddy Ricch
The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.
~ Richard O'Brien
I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
~ Halston Sage
I was like the funny guy in sixth form. When we used to do showcases, I'd host them, and I would do, like, little comedy segments.
~ Michael Dapaah
I don't even know how many times I auditioned for Danny Zuko in 'Grease.'
~ Scott Bakula
The extent to which we experience our freedom from condemnation in Christ is the extent to which we will realize there is no life in performing.
~ Gregory A. Boyd
The war had funneled men and women into familiar channels. Anton's girls were performing their impressions of what girls were supposed to be like.
~ Gregory Benford
I plan to release just as much music as I can. Movies, I should be working on a cartoon, reality show, everything. Everything I could do, like a clothing line, like a lot of things are in the works. I plan on just performing everywhere. I'm gonna be worldwide!
~ Astro
I wear and have worn scarves my entire life while traveling, working out, and now sometimes while performing, and not just on my head - I wear them around my neck and on my bag.
~ Estelle
Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.
~ Loretta Lynn
I've done tons of guest spots and in parts where the character invariably dies or is dead.
~ Jeffrey Dean Morgan
I went to a really small school, and it had a really small theater department. They didn't talk about Broadway. I learned about it through watching the Tony Awards.
~ Annie Wersching
When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
~ Garrett Hedlund
I love karaoke and totally hog the mic when I go out and do it with my friends.
~ Charli XCX
You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family.
~ Janet Jackson
It's a shame, but every time I get something scientific in the script, I read up to find out what I'm talking about - but then I'm on to the next script and it's forgotten.
~ Jim Parsons