Performing Quotes
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Perform Quotes
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
Aristotle
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I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she`s performing, the audience is just in awe of her.
Britney Spears
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On performing improv theater: "I`m convinced to do improv. All you have to do is listen to what people are saying to you, and then just add more information to what they`ve just said. That`s all there is to improv, but it`s the hardest thing to do"
Ryan Stiles
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[On performing naked on-camera] "I`m much more confident in front of a camera, hidden by a character, enhanced by makeup, so I can go much further than I can in real life. Being naked is quite a natural thing, but it`s more the sexual situations. Sexual a...
Ludivine Sagnier
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When I was 2 my mom said she knew I was going to be a singer. I`ve been performing ever since I was a young kid. So I`ve known I wanted to do this for awhile. I always knew in my heart that I`d be singing.
Avril Lavigne
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I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There`s a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that th...
Bruce Willis
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(On performing period-drama dialogue) "I mean, you try to make it as real as possible but when you have lines like `The fallen eagle is Caesar; the vulture Octavius, and there is one, yet to be decided, who will betray them all`. And you`re just like, `Gr...
Emily Blunt
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Well I have always seen myself as country but I spent so many years in Australia playing in these pubs where you had to be aggressive with your playing. You tend to start performing with a certain conviction and a certain energy. So that`s what I was perf...
Keith Urban
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Onstage, every night you create something new. Plus, you have your audience right there - it`s like performing for the gods.
Eva Green
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Theater really is my first love. I love the stage, performing for an audience. Some of my favorite credits would have to be the Shakespeare work I did in New York and To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday. I also loved working with Jim Henson on Muppets Take Ma...
Gates McFadden
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I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it`s all make-believe.
Vince Vaughn
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(About auditioning for Fame and Fortune) "You have to think you`ll be one of the ones who makes it." (From Education Weekly, January 26, 1983--when he was a student of drama at the New York High School for the Performing Arts.)
Ron Eldard
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I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother. (People Magazine, "The Power of Love" by Marisa Laudadio & Karen S. Schneider - 3 December 2007)
Celine Dion
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I have loved performing since I was big enough to wrestle my little brothers and sisters into sitting long enough for me to sing them my latest musical masterpiece. I just hope ya`ll will come out and see this little girl from the hills of Tennessee walk ...
Dolly Parton
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I hate performing. I don`t care about being thought funny; I never did. Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all. I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.
Don Adams
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I`ve always seen myself as one of those `show people.` My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.
Brittany Murphy
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I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she`s performing, the audience is just in awe of her.
Britney Spears
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Performing is what I like most. I find the studio very confining. You can do a lot in there, and you get the opportunity to try again and again. But on stage you have the adrenalin going and you`ve got one shot and the energy is so intense.
Britney Spears
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I go into movies thinking, we`re performing, but with interviews, we`re pretending to be completely real. I just can`t get my head around it. And the things we say in this hour could permanently shape our personas. I mean, tell me that`s not a little odd!...
Joaquin Phoenix
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... but it was movies I had always wanted to be in. I`m into the whole thing, not just performing. I love watching what goes on behind the camera. My heroes are Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd -- complete filmmakers.
Bill Paxton
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In a recent interview, I was asked how I reconciled being a Christian with performing at events for my gay fans. I find it upsetting that some folks equate being a Christian with being intolerant of gay people. That may, unfortunately, be true for some, b...
Jennifer Hudson
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I had a certain fear of exposing myself too much in my work for a long time. A lot of what performing to me had been was elaborate, and at times quite clever, concealment. Someone once said of acting that it is `telling beautiful lies,` and well, it becam...
Patrick Stewart
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There are so many avenues of performing. I`m not interested in the form of musical theater unless it`s something like The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), which is a blast.
Kim Cattrall
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When I am on stage performing my single, I am thinking about all the girls who are my friends more than anything and are truly `Beautiful Souls`.
Jesse McCartney
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I love performing in front of a live audience. I dont get nervous at all. I`d rather perform in a huge arena than in front of a handful of people.
Stacy Keibler
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[on performing] "It`s like a surge of electricity going through you. It`s almost like making love, but it`s even stronger than that . . . sometimes I think my heart is going to explode."
Elvis Presley
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Performing in front of a camera is a new adventure for me. It`s a new and much more intellectual process. Music is more of the moment, more spiritual. It`s an event! (from an early 80s interview)
Debbie Harry
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I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5. Madonna was my original muse -- around 5, I saw her perform on TV, and I realized that performing could be one`s vocation. Then, at 7 or 8, I realized that most actors don`t...
Claire Danes
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I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.
Lucy Hale
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[To Bill Takacs (an IMDb biography writer), who in 1979 met him on a flight to New York from Johannesburg, South Africa (he had been performing in nearby Swaziland) and who addressed him as Mr. Evans (his real name)] "Don`t call me Mr. Evans; only my mini...
Chubby Checker
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