Performing Arts Quotes

• More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

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• The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.

  David Rubenstein

  Art, People, Theatre

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• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

  Twyla Tharp

  Music, Dance, Running

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• Everything around you can use. It's like your tools and your material. Whether it's in performing arts like dance, or visual arts, or poetry, a lot of those elements can come and help you, can trigger your creativity. But you have to be open, be aware, and you have to be ready to look.

  Chath Piersath

  Art, Creativity, Tools

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The way you survive in the performing arts is by having a sense of your audience, and doing things which entertain and satisfy the audience, but in a more important way, cause the audience to question many things.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Art, Important, Way

  "The Superconductor: SF Symphony’s Michael Tilson Thomas (Condensed Version)". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2010.

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• I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.

  Carmen Electra

  Art, Attitude, School

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• I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

  Allen Carr

  Art, College, Would Be

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• I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

  Anthony Anderson

  Art, School, Talent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his monologues and stuff and rehearse in our apartment. So I used to hear him all the time doing these things over and over and over. And when I was a little girl, I used to soak up everything - like anything anyone did, I soaked it up.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Girl, Art, Brother

  Interview With Drew Barrymore, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 23, 2011.

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• For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.

  Christina Milian

  Art, School, Years

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• I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Art, College, Idols

  Interview With Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. August 27, 2012.

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• I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

  Ving Rhames

  Acting, Whim, English Teacher

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• In the performing arts you have to have thick, thick, thick skin, because of all the rejection you face on a daily basis, and the fact that work never lasts for very long. But you need thin, thin, thin skin in order to access all of your emotions and your creativity so that you can express it. You can't be dead inside. Otherwise you've got nothing to give. So it's a paradox, that we have to exist in both planes in order to do what we do.

  Audra McDonald

  Art, Creativity, Order

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Art, School, Performing

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• Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

  Karen Kain

  Artist, Dancer, Performing

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• I love every aspect of the performing arts and can't imagine myself doing anything different. I give my heart to every project.

  Kelly Stables

  Art, Giving, Different

  "The Exes’ Kelly Stables: Giving Her Heart to Faith, Motherhood, and the Arts". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think in the end there is one ultimate goal with all my careers, and that is, as a performing artist, you want to explore the deepest, most truthful way to express a point of view, or whatever the character is thinking, or whatever emotion you're trying to convey. I think with the different media it's just about what muscles you use to express that.

  Audra McDonald

  Character, Thinking, Artist

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• Posing is a performing art.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Art, Posing, Performing

  Quoted inThe Guardian,1975.

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• In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Art, Two, Different

  "Pavarotti: My World". Book by Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, 1995.

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• That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, Wall, Night

  "Miles of Aisles". Live album by Joni Mitchell, November 1, 1974.

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• If I do a lot of television, than I miss theater. If I do a lot of theater, than I miss film. This global thing of performing arts gives me strength.

  Richard Sammel

  Art, Giving, Missing

  Source: collider.com

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• I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn’t really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.

  Rainey Qualley

  Mom, Art, Two

  "Andie MacDowell and Rainey Qualley Prove Mighty Fine". Interview with Alex Simon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I think for a lot of people that are in performing arts, it's easy to fall into the trap of starting to confuse what's real life and what's not, because to your body it's all real.

  Audra McDonald

  Art, Real, Fall

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving integrity, relentless ambition towards some abstract perfection. Certainly all these factors determine a dancer's character, and every element exists in some combination within the performing artist's presence.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Beautiful, Dance, Integrity

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