Performing Quotes - Page 10

• Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

  Albert Bandura

  Everyday, Suffering, Trying

  Albert Bandura (1977). “Social learning theory”, Prentice Hall ; Toronto : Prentice-Hall of Canada

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• When I sing for myself, I sing in a more free, athletic way. When I face an audience, there is always some fear that makes me put the brakes on a bit.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Athletic, Way, Faces

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• The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.

  Chris Brown

  Worst Moments, Care, Crowds

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• And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Giving, Trying, Bangs

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• Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle.

  David Byrne

  Song, Effort, Together

  "David Byrne and Thom Yorke on the Real Value of Music". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 18, 2007.

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• 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.

  Steve Carell

  Writing, Aspect, Feels

  "Q&A: Fey, Carell hit the town in `Date Night'". Interview with Jake Coyle, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. March 29, 2010.

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• I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not how I would want to grow up, with wacky dad showing up at school and performing for everyone.

  Steve Carell

  Dad, Growing Up, Kids

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• The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

  Alexis Carrel

  Destiny, Giving, Firsts

  "Reflections On Life". Book by Alexis Carrel, 1952.

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• I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

  Nick Cave

  Godlike, Wanted, Persons

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• No matter what size I am I love performing no matter how big or little I am! I feel good.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Feel Good, Size, Littles

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• You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Kids, Careers, Piano

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• 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.

  Dane Cook

  Gorillas, Littles, Comedy

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• The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Team, Artist, Wire

  "Francis Ford Coppola: There Should Only Be One 'Godfather'". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. December 3, 2012.

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• I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Easy, Pretending

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• The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.

  Willem Dafoe

  Art, Dad, Thinking

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• I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Art, Thinking, Scare

  "An Interview with She & Him's Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward". BlackBook Interview, bbook.com. March 5, 2010.

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• I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's all about that sort of centered feeling that I have now. You know, thanks to, not just my kid, but her father before her. You know, I have a kind of a grounding through them that I really relish, and I think is also good for my work, you know.

  Ani DiFranco

  Father, Kids, Thinking

  "Ani DiFranco Thrives With 20th Album". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 29, 2008.

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• Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.

  Phil Donahue

  Doctors, Earthquakes, Honor

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• When you spend your entire life as a child actress, being told where to go and where to stand, you're performing constantly for people. It definitely breeds the kind of person who's dependent on other people's approval.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Children, People, Actresses

  "Kirsten Dunst in Depth". Interview with Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 10, 2008.

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• I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up.

  Carmen Electra

  Dip, Groups, Use

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• I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

  Paloma Faith

  Years, Age, Four

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• I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.

  Paul Feig

  Drama, Michigan, Clubs

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• I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

  Carrie Fisher

  Audience, Partnering

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2011.

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• I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.

  Al Franken

  Art, Writing, People

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• There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Men, Rights, Order

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