Performing Quotes - Page 33

• Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously.

  Sophy Burnham

  Miracle, Religion, Way

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives”, p.48, Penguin

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• Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

  Alan Cumming

  Men, Challenges, Feels

  "Shakespeare and me: Alan Cumming" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2012.

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• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  Felicity Kendal

  Player, Land, Careers

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• Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.

  Nancy Allen

  Running, Real, School

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• Tachyon OPC+ is a natural extension of our market-winning Tachyon platform, giving customers a clear path to minimizing the OPC error budget and producing better-performing circuits sooner and faster. Until now, customers have had to deal with a delicate balance of compromises when producing advanced OPC-enabled circuits, including trading accuracy for speed. Tachyon OPC+ breaks free from these compromises.

  Bill Vaughan

  Winning, Errors, Giving

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• A lot of people don't realize, when you are acting in a martial arts film, you're not just performing martial arts. You're not just performing martial arts. You're actually acting as much as any other actor.

  Donnie Yen

  Art, People, Acting

  "Interview with Action Film Star Donnie Yen". "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. October 19, 2011.

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• I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Dancing, Singing, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.

  Naturi Naughton

  Song, Emotional, Singing

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• 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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• 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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