Quotes About Performing

I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.

I was singing before I started acting. As a kid, I would always perform at the big family parties.

I'll be honest: I've never wanted to do anything other than perform.

I always wanted to perform.

I always wanted to write as much as perform.

As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.

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

My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress.

I go for a couple of parties; you won't find me at every film party and never at award ceremonies. I tried attending for the first three to four years, and I've performed at award shows. I sat in them, and I've also exited pretty fast from them. It's just not my place. I'd rather get their adulation in a cinema hall.

My experience of being a singer and performer is there is something meditative and very positive about singing, just resonating the inside of your body.

I'm a better writer than a performer. Everyone wants to feel like they're a bit of a polymath, and I certainly feel that.

I think for me, as far as cooking, some of it came naturally just from watching my dad. My dad was more of the cook than my mom was, so it's just handing it down from generation to generation. I just love to cook and have fun. And as performers, we love to cook, and we love to entertain people.

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

Life does not measure up to performing... Performing is perfect.

I couldn't see a future of doing anything other than performing. I didn't like school if I'm being honest. I would have settled for performing in any capacity.

So I would dance and she would sing, and it was kind of a family thing. Performing was part of our world.

I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.

There has to be an interaction of musicians on stage. Otherwise I feel too alone up there. When performing is really good, when it really works, maybe once every 15 shows, it's very special, and you realize that's why you do it.

My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performing universe of her own. Activists would run a mile from her because they could not deal with what she is.

I was always the class clown, and I think I gravitated toward performing for the attention I didn't always think I was getting at home.

My background was in performing originally.

I'm a Buckeye at heart. I spend more time giving concerts in Ohio than I do in any other state - perhaps more time than I spend performing anywhere else in the world. I have a great relationship with the people of Ohio, and it's great to be near the OSU when I come to Columbus.

I got to know E'Dawn when he was a trainee, and since becoming friends after performing together, we began dating in May 2016. We began dating after working on our music together.

I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.