Performing Quotes

• I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.

  Lucy Hale

  Believe, Singing, Thrill

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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 terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.

  Eric Whitacre

  Feelings, Going Away, Composer

  Twitter post from May 20, 2016

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• I love performing. It's a phenomenal getaway. If you want to really let out everything you feel, that's the time to do it.

  Michael Jackson

  Want, Getaways, Phenomenal

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from May 17, 2016

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• We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

  Aristotle

  Courage, Philosophical, Brave

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• Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

  Charley Pride

  Energizing, Humbling

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• Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  Twitter post from Jul 20, 2015

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• Performing onstage is all about reacting in a grand way. You're playing an arena of seventeen or eighteen thousand people and it's your job to make sure the person at the back feels as cool as the person all the way in the front. Being on stage is a bit of a façade. You get to walk out there and be the coolest version of yourself that you could possibly have imagined and then you come off stage and you're just like everyone else.

  Justin Timberlake

  Jobs, People, Way

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Wherever you are or whatever your job, don't be confused or diverted by false priorities. We have only one mission to perform-that is to fight and win. And, we must do it better than anyone else in the world.

  Leslie E. Brown

  Inspirational, Jobs, Confused

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• The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is important. You might feel in yourself that you're doing it ok but it's when you get the live reaction that you know you're doing it right.

  Tony Iommi

  Silly, Talking, Feelings

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• Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

  Wes Montgomery

  Music, Play, African American

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• The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Sports, Fun, Athlete

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• When I perform, I don’t think about the haters, the Internet trolls, or anyone else. I care about giving the person in front of me something they won’t forget. And that’s why I bring the cake and raft out.

  Steve Aoki

  Hater, Thinking, Cake

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• I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be on, performing.

  Jim Carrey

  Party, Late, Only Time

  "Work experience: The stars before they were famous" by Lucy Barrick, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2000.

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• I have a love-hate relationship with performing.

  Sarah Brightman

  Art, Hate, Love Hate

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• I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.

  Rose Byrne

  Sibling, Thinking, Always Trying

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• Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, July, August

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• The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.

  Mrinalini Sarabhai

  Dance, Art, Pain

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• The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Relationship, Positive, Life Changing

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• I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for Ireland. If I have a duty I will perform it to the full with the unshakable belief that we are a noble race and that chains and bounds have no part in us

  Francis Hughes

  Military, Patriotic, Fighting

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• Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Fun, Comedy, Slapstick

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• The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Knowledge, Science, Power

  Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, Homer (1839). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.7

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• We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

  Aristotle

  Ambition, Exercise, Self

  Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

  Samuel Smiles

  Reality, Desire, Anticipation

  Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.

  Chris Kattan

  Character, Creating, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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