Quotes About Performing

It's hard to say exactly when it all started or what show it was, but I started touring when I was 11. I played all over Dallas and Fort Worth, and eventually I was touring the whole state.

Touring is a tough business.

My life could have easily gone another way. But I had this one teacher who gave me direction and got me into performing. She got me into touring with an educational play called 'The Inner Circle' along with Pedro Zamora from MTV's 'The Real World.'

It is like an addiction: I get addicted to performing and touring. I get itchy and think, 'I've got to do this.'

The best part of touring has to be playing shows.

I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing musicians, so that's what we do.

I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.

Touring is such a major sacrifice, especially as you get older, to be away from friends and family and home and any sort of routine or home comforts.

I love touring. I love stand up. I love getting on a tour bus with my friends.

Hopefully after a year or two of touring around eventually we'll just be The Blanks. We do pretty much everything we do on 'Scrubs' in our show, but it's not presented as Ted's Band.

After two world tours where we played every state but Greenland, I only saw the inside of a hotel. I wouldn't have missed it for the world, but it did get tiring.

Cindy had two kids. We did manage to keep playing and doing summer tours with the Go-Gos, the Pretenders, and Blondie.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

I've been an actor since I was 18. So that's my proper job. But I was not a very successful actor, if you consider being able to afford your rent successful. I did lots of old people's tours; reminiscence tours.

After leaving Queen, I decided to stop doing those mega-four-month tours. I go out for a month, and my dog recognizes me when I come home.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.

Our goals, our dreams and ambitions have always been towards performing live music across the globe, and so when we were told we were performing at The Billboard Awards or being nominated for a VMA, they're like extra bonuses.

I've played in practically every city in Scotland, and loads of towns as well. I just feel very grateful that I'm able to do that.

I love playing small towns, but in Sweden, it's sometimes a little bit weird, because all small towns are just so close to bigger cities that people are not as grateful when you show up as they are in Odessa, Texas.

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

I love doing impersonations of people.

I love musicals and I'm happy they are coming back because I'd love to do more.