Quotes About Performing

I have been very fortunate to have been able to make a living from what I love to do best - performing and singing for people.

Im a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.

Touring and performing is the best part of my job. I love it. I guess I like pop and rock. Really getting into a powerful stage performane, running around like crazy on the stage.

Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.

I'm a Broadway baby, through and through. It's my first love, and it's what brought me to New York in the first place.

I love 'Breathe' with Taylor (Swift) but I've been performing 'Lucky' with Jason (MRaz) all over the world in the past year so I'm glad that's what won.

I'm really thirsty to go on tour! I love putting on a show. If the crowd ain't acting bougie, I love performing.

I just love expressing my joy and my mind through what I wear, or how I cook, or how I dance, or how I write or perform a song - how I move.

I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.

My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.

I think the kick to doing comedy is just to get in a film with really funny people and let them do their jobs. I find that in most comedies, I'm not the funny one, which works out great.

Why should I knock myself out as a producer when there's as much money In acting - and fewer headaches.

Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.

Rhetoric is the performing artist's toolbox, the lore of "playing an audience," a set of techniques and skills, practiced for many centuries, that can be drawn from to produce specific results. That

Though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.

I would recommend any young person who wants to be an actor to go and get some training.

I was a natural drama queen when I was younger. I was always doing impersonations and showing off.

Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they're 15 they can play 11 or when they're 18 they can play 14. They look young for so long, they have abilities a much younger kid wouldn't have.

I'm the youngest of three sisters. We were always performing plays for each other.

Being a dancer myself, I can understand the travails of youngsters performing in 'Magadheera.'

I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.

Obviously, fans are the beginning and end for any artist. The minute your fans embrace you and accept you, you begin this ride of being in music and having a career doing something you love. You get to go be a kid and live out your dreams by performing music for fans who come out to your shows.

Before YouTube, I was playing in restaurants and doing open mics - every once in a while, I'd throw an original in there. And then YouTube kind of just opened doors for me, so once I felt like I had an audience to share music with, I began to share my original music.

Certainly, when I left New Zealand, there was no career there as a comedian. I was doing more live gigs than anyone, and I was maybe doing three a week. Even then, it would often be the same people in the audience, going, 'I saw you on Tuesday, mate!'