Performances are always more interesting to me when something is at stake.
‐‐ Kirsten Prout
Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.
‐‐ Tullian Tchividjian
Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.
‐‐ Jane Campion
Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
‐‐ Olivia Hussey
Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.
‐‐ Penn Jillette
Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.
‐‐ Kiki Dee
Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
‐‐ Adrian Edmondson
Performers should really go to the best schools, like Lady Gaga, you know, she went to NYU and had great teachers... It's best to really study your technique as much as you possibly can so you can have a long career instead of a quick one that's a failure.
‐‐ Tony Bennett
Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
‐‐ Alan Cumming
Performing abroad is ambassadorial.
‐‐ Robert Battle
Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. And if you fail there, you have failed it all.
‐‐ Moshe Safdie
Performing arts was something I was always part of. That was may be the only common thread that ran throughout my education, throughout my schooling years. But apart from that, there were no friends or no long term associations. That was the only thing I knew was with me wherever I went.
‐‐ Nimrat Kaur
Performing at the TMCF Awards Gala is so exciting.
‐‐ Andra Day
Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got the human game preserve to play off of. And it's a lot of great characters everywhere. You work off that, and then you play the rooms, and eventually you get to a point where you're playing a club that is a comedy club, with other comics.
‐‐ Robin Williams
Performing didn't feel comfortable until I was about 17. I loved to sing, but I always said I would never perform because I was too scared.
‐‐ Seinabo Sey
Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
‐‐ Robert Smith
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
‐‐ Dan Rather
Performing for Dick Van Dyke once was fun.
‐‐ Jerrod Carmichael
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand
Performing for the Dalai Lama - those are words I never imagined coming out of my mouth.
‐‐ Joe Nichols
Performing has always been something I wanted to do. My dad had a video camera and I loved being in front of it.
‐‐ Julia Voth
Performing has been part of my life since I was eight years old, so that's what I think I do. I don't think about the fact that it happens to be in a bigger venue where people get to know you, or they think they do.
‐‐ Peri Gilpin
Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.
‐‐ Kim Wilde
Performing in front of a live audience can be pretty intimidating, so having a full head of hair was important to me.
‐‐ Joey Fatone
Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.
‐‐ James Taylor
Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.
‐‐ James Taylor
Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living.
‐‐ David Byrne
Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
‐‐ Charley Pride
Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.
‐‐ Alan King
Performing is my passion. Being onstage is at once exhilarating, beguiling, and fulfilling. But it's hard.
‐‐ Monica Raymund
Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.
‐‐ Britney Spears
Performing is the craziest workout for me, because I feel like, on the first day of tour, I'm going nuts. Halfway through, I'm just so tired but obviously you keep pushing yourself because you have fans watching you.
‐‐ Hayley Williams
Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.
‐‐ Neil Diamond
Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.
‐‐ David Tudor
Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.
‐‐ Rita Wilson
Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.
‐‐ Neil Peart
Performing live is not my favourite. I am more of a recording person; I prefer to be private. I didn't mind doing videos, even if they came very close with the camera. I can take that, but walking on stage in concert and singing live, that is a bit difficult.
‐‐ Agnetha Faltskog
Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.
‐‐ Toni Braxton
Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
‐‐ Idina Menzel
Performing, not rehearsing, is a dancer's raison d'etre, and I've been lucky to 'etre' in some extraordinary places - Cuba, Paris, Mongolia. In particular, a two-week stint in Greece leaps to mind. We danced in the Acropolis's Herodes Atticus amphitheater, once a venue for gladiator spectacles.
‐‐ Sascha Radetsky
Performing on stage is my first love - it's why I wanted to be an actor in the first place - and 'Arcadia' is the highlight of my career so far. I love the intimacy of a live theatre audience - you can really squeeze every last drop out of each scene.
‐‐ Tom Riley
Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.
‐‐ Haley Reinhart
Performing tai chi in space - it is comfortable; we got more outer space chi.
‐‐ Liu Yang
Performing was something I could cling to. It was the only thing I had some control over and that's why I did it. If I hadn't, I'm not sure which way I'd have gone.
‐‐ Sarah Brightman
Performing was terrifying.
‐‐ Bryan Ferry
Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.
‐‐ Darrell Hammond
Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.
‐‐ Carter Burwell
Perfume is like a personal signature, which is why I like to mix my own. For years I've paired Femme by Rochas with Shalimar and love the results.
‐‐ Danielle Steel
Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.
‐‐ David Fincher