Quotes About Performing

they all performed the same vital function: to flood the environment with narrative links between what they were doing now and what it meant.

Born in the Village. My mom still lives on Bleeker Street. I went to the performing arts high school.

When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain.

I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course.

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.

If you're in rock 'n' roll, you're not supposed to admit to liking theatre stuff, but I'm a big theatregoer.

There is a connection between Dal mations and gipsies. Many people believe that it was the gipsies who first brought Dalmatians to England, long, long ago. And nothing like as long ago as that, there were gipsies who travelled round England with Dalmatians trained to do tricks. And these performing dogs earned money for the gipsies.

I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.

Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live.

I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It's the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do.

I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

But the Clash as a performing band, either live on-stage, or back together in the studio: that can never happen again. It was hard enough to envisage a Clash without Mick Jones in 1983, but it is impossible to envisage one without Joe Strummer now or at any time in the future. Even if the other members of the band do get back together, and they (or Sony) choose to use the name, it won't be the Clash. Joe Strummer is dead, and irreplaceable. That's it, now. From here to eternity.

There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

I was in a band called The Valentines and they broke up last week.

It's funny because I went to a predominantly white school, but for some reason they always picked the musicals that were supposed to be done by totally black casts.

Robin [Williams], he's pretty dynamic. I had a lot of fun but I also felt like there was no onus on me to be funny.

We're now the results of our past actions, and in the future we'll be the results of the actions we're performing now.

If I had not been a Shadowhunter, I would have had a future on the stage. I have no doubt I would have been greeted with acclaim.

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.

When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.

I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.

because the rest of the relics in the place lurched toward me then, like some nursing-home theater guild performing Night of the Living Dead.