Performing Quotes - Page 23

• I've learned a lot of things about myself through singing. I used to have a certain dislike of the audience, not as individual people, but as a giant body who was judging me. Of course, it wasn`t really them judging me. It was me judging me. Once I got past that fear, it freed me up, not just when I was performing but in other parts of my life.

  Julie Andrews

  Past, Judging, People

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• When confronted with information streaming from the eyes, the brain will interpret this information in the quickest and most efficient way possible. Time is energy. The longer the brain spends performing some calculation, the more energy it consumes. Considering the brain runs on about 40 watts of power (a lightbulb!), it doesn't have a lot of energy to spare.

  Gregory Berns

  Running, Eye, Brain

  Gregory Berns (2010). “Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently”, p.7, Harvard Business Press

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• Grease is one of the movies that made me want to be an entertainer, and I have literally been waiting my whole life to play Sandy. My siblings and I watched it and played it out over and over when we were kids. This is my dream role and performing it live on television will be one of the most thrilling opportunities I’ve had in my career so far.

  Julianne Hough

  Dream, Sibling, Kids

  "Fox Taps Julianne Hough, Vanessa Hudgens for 'Grease: Live'" by Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2015.

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• There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

  Kevin Costner

  Real, Drama, Know How

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• I really love live performing!

  Clay Aiken

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• Performing in front of a live audience can be pretty intimidating, so having a full head of hair was important to me.

  Joey Fatone

  Hair, Important, Intimidating

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

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• I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.

  Lyndsy Fonseca

  Dancer, Way, Really Sad

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

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• My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland USA, which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.

  John Barrowman

  Jobs, Kids, Firsts

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, tv.avclub.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

  Delta Goodrem

  Drama, School, Class

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• An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!

  Ashley Tisdale

  People, Stage, Mines

  "All-New Ashley Tisdale Interview". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. June 11, 2008.

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• If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'

  Samantha Barks

  Girl, Parent, Alive

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• You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

  Rick Danko

  Song, Sight, Singing

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• I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

  Tom Wopat

  Experience, Excited, Audience

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• I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

  Ronnie Spector

  Sleep, Night, Men

  "Ronnie's spectre". Interview With Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2006.

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• But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Love, Artist, People

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• Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I've always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it's in my blood.

  Jack Huston

  Writing, Loving Life, Blood

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• Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter leaving his traces in code, the birds were coming to try it, performing a dance for no one and flying up toward the moon.

  Cesar Aira

  Flower, Moon, Bird

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• I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

  Ade Edmondson

  Men, Laughing So Hard, Elderly

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

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• I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

  Jerry Rice

  Football, Pressure, Used

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• 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

  People, Different, Matter

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• To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself.

  Michael Owen

  Streaks, Angry, Ifs

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• The Nile Project is the performing side of an effort that also includes education in music and environmental issues, raising awareness of the entire Nile basin as an ecosystem. With such vibrant music, the good intentions were a bonus; the Nile Project was a superb example of what I call small-world music, of what happens to traditions in the information age.

  Jon Pareles

  Issues, Ecosystems, Effort

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• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  Laura Mvula

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• I love 'Breathe' with Taylor (Swift) but I've been performing 'Lucky' with Jason (MRaz) all over the world in the past year so I'm glad that's what won.

  Colbie Caillat

  Past, Years, Jason

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• I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.

  Florence Welch

  Rain, Wind, Heaven

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