Performing Quotes - Page 26

• My home is at the WWE. I truly do love performing. The atmosphere here isn't like anything else. It's truly where I belong.

  John Cena

  Home, Wwe, Atmosphere

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I'm very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs.

  Ricky Jay

  Writing, Stage, Young

  "So Many Weird Worlds: A Conversation with Ricky Jay" by Cole Louison, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2011.

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• I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.

  Natasha Calis

  Mom, Teacher, Character

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• Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.

  Simon Callow

  Weekend, Afternoon, Evening

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• 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.

  Rob Delaney

  Kids, Thinking, Laughing

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• I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

  Brad Dourif

  Rehearsal, Film, Stage

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

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• And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Responsibility, Long, Way

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• When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Thinking, Trying, Records

  Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. August 2, 2015.

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• In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.

  Willem Dafoe

  Moving, Play, Luxury

  Interview with Jonathan Romney, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 1998.

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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 performing from the age of three.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Age, Three

  "My CV: Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

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• I love performing on stage the most. It's getting that instant reaction from a live audience. There are no boundaries, you can take your character as far as you want to, you can be the craziest person ever.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Character, Want, Boundaries

  "My CV: Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

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

  Lyndsy Fonseca

  Walks

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

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• Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

  Melanie Fiona

  Wanted, Performers, Hard

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• All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting ,and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it - no matter where it is.

  Ariana Grande

  Dancing, Singing, Acting

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• I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.

  Andy Gibb

  Australia, Years, England

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• The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.

  Gil Gerard

  Jobs, Mean, Acting

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• I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.

  Lily Allen

  School, Unhappy, Rehearsal

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

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• One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

  Michael Emerson

  Two, Meditation, Feelings

  "Actor Michael Emerson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 16, 2012.

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• I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.

  Sia Furler

  Unique, Want, Moments

  "Sia Learns to Sound Like Herself". www.npr.org. February 15, 2008.

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• I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

  Kay Boyle

  Duty, Difficult, Chores

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• I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

  Pete Townshend

  Family, Mother, Ambition

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• God-realization is the most difficult state to reach. Let no one fool himself, nor think that someone else can "give" it to him. Whenever I fell into a state of mental stagnation, my Master could do nothing for me. But I never gave up trying to keep in tune with him by cheerfully performing whatever he asked me to do. "I have come to him for God-realization," I reasoned, "and I must listen to his advice."

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Thinking, Giving, Advice

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• The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing dutiful actions. Any individual can reach this supreme actionless state by the renunciation of all fruits of actions: performing all dutiful acts without harbouring in his heart any likes and dislikes, possessing no material desires, and feeling God, not the ego, as the Doer of all actions.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Lying, Heart, Likes And Dislikes

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.1070, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and performing. Now, I probably do 30 or 40 dates a year and I get to relive how I felt at 19 when I played in some really bad bands.

  David Cassidy

  Stars, Guitar, Years

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