Quotes About Performance

I painted sets before I ever performed.

One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.

It is important, even if you performed a role the night before, to think, 'This is the first time this is going to happen.'

I was always singing to myself, but I never ever performed, and I never told anyone I liked to sing. So it was a definitely a new adventure going in to audition for 'Glee.'

The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island.

I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.

As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.

When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd... was just amazing.

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

'Malvolio' is the one show of mine that will not die. I've performed it more than 200 times all over the place.

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up. I want to bring it back to the early '80s Muppet movies, when the scripts could have been performed by humans.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.

I haven't done any 'Fringe' shows since I was about 17. Then I performed with my youth theatre in a show where we all had this old-fashioned make-up on and giggled through our lines.

I never even thought about being an actor. Somebody asked me if I'd like to learn the craft, and I said, 'Okay.' I was a gymnast in a show at that time, and somebody asked me afterwards one night. I performed as a gymnast for nine years, and then I did acting after that.

Bejart is almost never performed in New York City; critically, he just gets attacked here.

We performed at the VMAs, which is crazy because we grew up watching that show and all of our inspirations and idols were there.

You have to learn to sell yourself. I think people forget they need to look at where else they've really performed in their life, where they've been in a place where they were confident.

I was playing 'The Flight of the Bumblebee,' and I totally forgot the ending, so I performed the whole piece again, and I still couldn't remember it.

I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

I wish I could have performed with Jeff Buckley, but I missed my chance.

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

I've always performed magic as a kid.

The routines of any ethnic comic - Eddie Murphy or George Lopez, for example - would not work if they were performed by anybody outside the group. The same routines would become arrogant and racist.