Quotes About Performance

Literally since I could walk... I was performing.

As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.

I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.

When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.

As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.

My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.

The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

Honestly, live is my favorite way of performing. Every show is a completely different energy.

I have always enjoyed performing, but I think when I was in the fifth grade was when I discovered that I really loved acting.

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.

I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.

I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.

I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.

When you're performing on Broadway every night, you're so much more accessible to people in the industry. Everybody is going to know who you are.

I love performing in the U.K. Everyone is always up for it and brings all their energy to the dance floor.

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

Extroverts may get places faster, but for introverts it's all about working at the pace you need and, at the end of the day, performing at your best.

I would have been a nightmare in any kind of office, because I wouldn't have had any friends in any environment other than performing.

Performing is my passion. Being onstage is at once exhilarating, beguiling, and fulfilling. But it's hard.

I love performing in front of people, no matter where they come from or what language they speak.

Acting is something I've done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart's in it.