Performing Quotes - Page 29

• I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.

  Naturi Naughton

  Play, Wings, Stage Performance

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• I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.

  Adam Carolla

  Television, Radio, Stuff

  Interview with Ariel Adams, www.askmen.com.

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

  Jeff Garlin

  Comedian, Forget, Sometimes

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• I definitely want to continue acting and performing.

  Sabrina Bryan

  Acting, Want, Acting And Performing

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• A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Block, Acting, Majority

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• 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.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Kids, People, Imagination

  "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Laura Bell Bundy". Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. March 13, 2007.

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• 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.

  Lea Salonga

  Thinking, Challenges, Singing

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• The biggest mistake I see people make is they are not on the right program. You should be circuit training and performing cardio 4-6 days a week (depending on time).

  Scott Herman

  Mistake, People, Training

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• I don't think I would've been performing this long if I didn't love it sincerely to the degree that I do. It's not enough to like it. Dilettantes like things. Professionals love things and I consider myself a professional.

  Lea Salonga

  Thinking, Long, Degrees

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• It's not my job to keep myself in the news. My job is to keep performing. If I spend time promoting myself or being concerned about my image, I wouldn't have the energy to do the work that I'm doing. I love what I do and I'm good at it too.

  Kalki Koechlin

  Jobs, Energy, News

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• My life with the Beatles had become a trap... I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn't said that the Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus' and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus.

  John Lennon

  Music, Christian, Jesus

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

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• If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

  Aristotle

  Government, Action, Virtue

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3120, Delphi Classics

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• Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.

  Bill Shorten

  Wages, Levels, Workplace

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

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• Performing for the Dalai Lama - those are words I never imagined coming out of my mouth.

  Joe Nichols

  Mouths, Coming Out, Lama

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• I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.

  Valerie June

  Littles, Studios, Bits

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• Don't Look Down” is her official debut as Skylar Grey, the singer, born Holly Brook Hafermann and raised in Mazomanie, Wis., has been making albums since she was a tween. Grey and her mother sang as a folk duo under the name Generations; they released three indie discs. “I learned a lot about professionalism, how the show must go on even though I feel like [expletive] sometimes,” Grey remembers. “I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.

  Skylar Grey

  Mom, Mother, Talking

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• There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

  Renee Fleming

  Thinking, Phrases, Performances

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

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• The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

  Phoebe Snow

  Motivation, Acceptance, Anxiety

  "NEW JERSEY Q & A: PHOEBE SNOW; Singing Her Way Back to the Top". Interview with Fred T. Abdella, www.nytimes.com. July 2, 1989.

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• I still like going on the road and performing, but it's getting tougher. I try to have my wife and the twins with me but it's getting harder and harder for them. They need to be in a home environment and not traveling with me.

  Kenny Rogers

  Home, Wife, Trying

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• Other people's lives are affected by how you are treating yourself and the way in which you are performing.

  Jason Mraz

  People, Way, Affected

  "Modern Music Masters: Jason Mraz". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 5, 2010.

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• When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.

  Jason Mraz

  Strong, Growing Up, Musical

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.

  Sharon Jones

  Song, Grateful, Thinking

  "Sharon Jones on soul music, cancer, and Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Kyle Fowle, music.avclub.com. January 15, 2014.

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• There's no room for failure performing [stand-up] for a black audience. If you don't get them right away it's tough winning them back even if you're doing top-notch material. If you didn't win them right when you walked out there, it's tough.

  Hannibal Buress

  Winning, Black, Rooms

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

  Billy Joel

  Creative, Records, Outlets

  "Q&A WITH BILLY JOEL : 'They See Me as One of Them' : Washed Up? Not to Fans of the Singer's New Album and World Tour". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. December 11, 1993.

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• I have never stopped performing live.I've been blessed with the talent to sing and play the piano so I can fit into a lot of different configurations and venues. I play public and private performances and it has served me well. And I've been fortunate to work in Europe and Asia as well as The US. So for those who have not attended my shows, it doesn't mean I'm not performing.

  Oleta Adams

  Blessed, Mean, Play

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