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Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
I've never done this from a standpoint of, 'I want to be famous.' I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing.
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze.
I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.
I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
I knew I was good at sports, and I knew I loved acting and performing, so I really dove into that, and school always became secondary.
People say my world is dark. No, there's a lot of lightness in my world. But I know very well that I'm not normal when I'm performing.
I want my soldiers - I mean artists - to be young and strong, with tireless energy performing impossible feats of cunning and bravura.
I would have been a nightmare in any kind of office, because I wouldn't have had any friends in any environment other than performing.
I still love making music. And I still love performing for my fans. I'd like to thank them for sticking with me through thick and thin.
After so many surgeries, I had to modify my game. I know what I can and can't do in order to keep performing for a long period of time.
I was always the class clown, and I think I gravitated toward performing for the attention I didn't always think I was getting at home.
I love performing. I love being a provocateur. I love putting myself in situations that are uncomfortable and that I have to get out of.
Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.
I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.
I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.
I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as 'The Royal Variety Show,' performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.
I'm in love with the entire industry and every aspect of performing and directing, even writing, and I love working with acting students.
If you're performing music that is not who you are or where you're at, it is painful. It's painful for the performer and for the audience.
I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.
I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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.
Every day, in every city and town across the country, police officers are performing vital services that help make their communities safer.
My experiences taught me firsthand that when a person is not performing well, there are many possible reasons, some not of his own choosing.
There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.
Theatre is for you if you truly want to act and test yourself. There is no room for error as you are performing in front of a live audience.
My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.
I think when you've lived a bit, you read more into the songs. I do, anyway. And you're sort of living the songs rather than performing them.
When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.
In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be on, performing.
I feel like when I'm on stage and when I'm performing - or I think when anybody is developing their talents and sharing it - I think you glow.
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.
I don't really understand it: in real life, I'm often so shy - paralysingly so - but when I'm performing, it's totally different. I feel free.
Marie Cornelie Falcon, who lost her voice while performing - singing the line 'Je suis pret' - 'I am ready.' How much more tragic can you get?
Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.
If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.
At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts.
I think the Apollo has always been the people's performing arts center and reflected the community, whether it is Stevie Wonder or Tito Puente.
I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.'
My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.
I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.
I double majored in English education and theater with a musical theater minor. Teaching is the only thing that makes me as happy as performing.
When you're performing on Broadway every night, you're so much more accessible to people in the industry. Everybody is going to know who you are.
I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.
Miss Goodblatt would call on me to read. She said I had a talent. So on a whim, I auditioned for the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan.
I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.