Performing Quotes - Page 12

• I was raised with "Laurel and Hardy" and "I Love Lucy" and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

  Steve Martin

  School, Laughing, Bedroom

  "Steve Martin Memoir Recalls A Past Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 1, 2009.

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• No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.

  Steve Martin

  Book, Writing, People

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• I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Kids, Dancing, Dancer

  "Q&A with ‘Orphan Black’ Star Tatiana Maslany". Interview, www.bbcamerica.com. April 8, 2013.

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• There's something about Michael J. Fox that I loved when he did all the '80s stuff. His way of performing all the physicality, which is why it's so tragic now, but the way he used his body so much as well, I loved.

  James McAvoy

  Body, Stuff, Way

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• My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

  Paul McCartney

  Art, School, Use

  Interview with Robert Siegel, www.avclub.com. June 27, 2007.

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• We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

  Joyce Meyer

  Real, Trying, Way

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• My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.

  Moby

  Jobs, Musician, Recording Studio

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• When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging.

  Moby

  Art, Philosophy, School

  "Trouble still comes easy for Moby". Interview With Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. April 8, 2008.

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• I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.

  Janelle Monae

  Ipads, Use, Chords

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• I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Class, Clown, Used

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• I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.

  Dylan Moran

  Self, Gigs, Able

  "Half-cut? I'd be entirely cut, sliced and diced every which way". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. December 06, 2006.

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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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• I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.

  Alanis Morissette

  Fashion, Wall, Design

  "Alanis Morissette on Her New Album, Changing Diapers, and Celebrity: 'Fame for Me Was Relatively Hollow'". Interview with Marc Spitz, www.vanityfair.com. August 28, 2012.

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• U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came down to performing on the ice, regardless of funding issues, we were always able to make it happen. And that's what it's all about.

  Apolo Ohno

  Past, Careers, Issues

  "Apolo Anton Ohno closes door on 2014 comeback". Interview with Kelly Whiteside, www.usatoday.com. April 24, 2013.

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• When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.

  Carre Otis

  Yoga, Realizing, Posture

  "Flexibility, Inside and Out" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.

  Clive Owen

  Drama, School, Europe

  "Clive Owen: I would do anything for my family". Interview, sg.news.yahoo.com. July 2, 2012.

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• If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

  Larry Page

  Inspirational, Motivational, Good Morning

  "20 Things I’ve Learned From Larry Page" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2015.

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• Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.

  Goran Persson

  Europe, Sweden, Remember

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• I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

  Liz Phair

  Comfortable

  "Liz Phair Talks Collaborating with A.R. Rahman for PEOPLE LIKE US, Taking on the Male Rock Establishment, Her New Album and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 26, 2012.

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• I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.

  Liz Phair

  Kind, Nervous, Enjoy

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• Being a father has fulfilled me in parts of my life that sustain me. It gives me a comfort and patience. All actors have this hole inside that they're trying to fill by performing. I'm anxious to keep creating, but I'm not so desperate any more because I have the love and support of my kids and wife.

  John C. Reilly

  Father, Kids, Creating

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• I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock.

  Julia Roberts

  Years, Long, House

  "Duplicity: Julia Roberts interview". Interview with John Hiscock, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 5, 2009.

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• 'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, Drama, Adventure

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• My son, Jett, is two, and when I was pregnant my nose got bigger, so I got a new one. Everything was bigger for a while after having Jet, but I knew I needed to be able to walk up my stairs without being winded. It took me two years to lose 60 lbs - lots of walking, bike-riding, kick-boxing and performing.

  Jill Scott

  Son, Years, Two

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• A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

  William Shatner

  Stage Actors, Audience, Actors

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