Quotes About Performance

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

My job is to make sure we keep performing.

I ended up performing on a full time basis and I never got to Julliard at all.

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.

Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.

I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace.

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.

I was performing from the age of three.

When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.

I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

So much of performing is a mind game.

Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I've always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it's in my blood.

I love performing.

My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

It's hard being away from home. But other than that, performing is the highlight of my day.

Performing for the Dalai Lama - those are words I never imagined coming out of my mouth.