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I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction. ~ Alycia Debnam Carey
Performing Arts quotes by Alycia Debnam Carey
I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a performing arts school in Yorkshire. I've probably romanticised it in my head, but I seem to remember that in the space of an hour's drama workshop, I was transformed. I went in really shy, and I came out full of confidence. ~ Christian Cooke
Performing Arts quotes by Christian Cooke
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. ~ Ving Rhames
Performing Arts quotes by Ving Rhames
Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted. ~ Ving Rhames
Performing Arts quotes by Ving Rhames
I am not an actress. I am a mistress of disguise. Acting happens to be one of the perks ~ Janna Cachola
Performing Arts quotes by Janna Cachola
I've had several moments in my career where it seemed like I might not age out of the bracket the world wants to put you in. It's hard to keep growing up inside the performing arts. It's very difficult, and presents a lot of unique challenges. ~ Ethan Hawke
Performing Arts quotes by Ethan Hawke
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind. ~ Gavin Newsom
Performing Arts quotes by Gavin Newsom
At Columbia there's no performing arts department, so I was searching for it everywhere I could, and I took some photography classes and I ended up becoming fascinated with Eastern Religion, and ultimately it seemed to encompass the more abstract mind that I have. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal
Performing Arts quotes by Jake Gyllenhaal
Son of a bitch. She was blackmailing him. He had to hand it to her, she was clever.

"How about one interview?"

"How about you get rid of what's-her-name without my help?" Kelly replied sweetly.

"Fine," he gritted out. "But you'd better make this good."

"Kayla isn't the only actress in the family." She reached up and patted his cheek with her key card. "I've dabbled in the performing arts myself. I played Kate in Taming of the Shrew when I was in college."

"I can't think of a better part for you," he snapped. "Let's get this over with. ~ Alison Packard
Performing Arts quotes by Alison Packard
I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older. ~ Rainey Qualley
Performing Arts quotes by Rainey Qualley
I went to Northampton College of Further Education. I left there - when I was 16, I left Kingsthorpe Upper - and I went and did a diploma in performing arts, so it was my start in the training process to becoming an actor. ~ Marc Warren
Performing Arts quotes by Marc Warren
Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice.
It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal Language. ~ Ellen J. Barrier
Performing Arts quotes by Ellen J. Barrier
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
Performing Arts quotes by Moby
I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know. ~ Eden Sher
Performing Arts quotes by Eden Sher
I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough. ~ Carmen Electra
Performing Arts quotes by Carmen Electra
The main difference between the art of the actor and all other arts is that every other [non-performing] artist may create whenever he is in the mood of inspiration. But the artist of the stage must be the master of his own inspiration, and must know how to call it forth at the hour announced on the posters of the theatre. This is the chief secret of our art. ~ Constantin Stanislavski
Performing Arts quotes by Constantin Stanislavski
To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts (such as acting and dance) entertain. Literature, however, retreats from life by turning in into slumber. The other arts make no such retreat - some because they use visible and hence vital formulas, others because they live from human life itself.
This isn't the case with literature. Literature stimulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the expression of ideas or feelings a language no one uses, because no one talks in verse. ~ Fernando Pessoa
Performing Arts quotes by Fernando Pessoa
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. ~ Stephen Graham
Performing Arts quotes by Stephen Graham
I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland. ~ Lainie Kazan
Performing Arts quotes by Lainie Kazan
Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed. ~ Peter O'Toole
Performing Arts quotes by Peter O'Toole
In about 9th grade, an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school, so I did on a whim. I got accepted. Then I got accepted at the Julliard School, and by then, I was serious about it. ~ Ving Rhames
Performing Arts quotes by Ving Rhames
Melinda was still stuck on the 24 thing. "And I don't see you grabbing the remote away from me when that countdown clock starts chiming," she said to Pete. "Unless it's to get a quick check of the scores on Monday nights."

Nick's ears perked up at the mention of scores. Sports. Now there was a topic upon which he could wax poetic. "Too bad Monday night football is over," he lamented to Pete. "But there's always basketball. Who are you eying for the Final Four?"

Pete looked mildly embarrassed as he gestured to Melinda. "She's, um, referring to the scores on Dancing with the Stars."

"He likes it when they do the paso doblé," Melinda threw in.

"The dance symbolizes the drama, artistry, and passion of a bullfight. It's quite masculine," Pete said.

"Except for the sequins and spray tans," Melinda added.

Pete clapped his hands together, ignoring this. "How about you, Nick? Are you a fan of the reality television performing arts? ~ Julie James
Performing Arts quotes by Julie James
I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood. ~ Tweet
Performing Arts quotes by Tweet
Performing arts was something I was always part of. That was may be the only common thread that ran throughout my education, throughout my schooling years. But apart from that, there were no friends or no long term associations. That was the only thing I knew was with me wherever I went. ~ Nimrat Kaur
Performing Arts quotes by Nimrat Kaur
I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts. ~ Marla Sokoloff
Performing Arts quotes by Marla Sokoloff
The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does. ~ David Rubenstein
Performing Arts quotes by David Rubenstein
The old Atlantean sciences from the tribe of enlightenment, of which there are only a few remnants and chards left in this world, were medicine, law, computers, and the performing arts. ~ Frederick Lenz
Performing Arts quotes by Frederick Lenz
The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting. ~ Willem Dafoe
Performing Arts quotes by Willem Dafoe
I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm so glad I did. I knew lots of people who'd gone there, so I always had my mind set on it. ~ Katy B
Performing Arts quotes by Katy B
Before I left for Germany, I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York, which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me. ~ Nina Arianda
Performing Arts quotes by Nina Arianda
I'd love to do more theatre and acting. I attended a performing arts high school in London, and it would be great to be able to put all of that training to use again. ~ Derek Hough
Performing Arts quotes by Derek Hough
Where did you learn to do that?"
"Los Angeles High School of Performing Arts," I said. "They taught me how to open my throat to sing. Then Kevin Wainwright taught me how to put his dick down it."
He laughed. "I'd like to thank LA Unified and Kevin Whatever for this moment. ~ C.D. Reiss
Performing Arts quotes by C.D. Reiss
I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane. ~ Beyonce Knowles
Performing Arts quotes by Beyonce Knowles
Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue. ~ Kate Baldwin
Performing Arts quotes by Kate Baldwin
I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra. ~ Kacy Hill
Performing Arts quotes by Kacy Hill
I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts. ~ Ellen Barkin
Performing Arts quotes by Ellen Barkin
And treating poetry as a performing art emphasizes its ephemerality. A printed poem can be endlessly reprinted, photocopied, scanned, uploaded, cut and pasted - but a performance, even if somebody's there with a video camera, is one time only: the audience experiences something that won't exist when the performance is over, and which won't ever be reproduced in exactly the same form. I find that appealing. ~ James Arthur
Performing Arts quotes by James Arthur
The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow.' ~ Arne Duncan
Performing Arts quotes by Arne Duncan
I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts. ~ Zooey Deschanel
Performing Arts quotes by Zooey Deschanel
Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. And if you fail there, you have failed it all. ~ Moshe Safdie
Performing Arts quotes by Moshe Safdie
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
Performing Arts quotes by Paul McCartney
It is not just bookstores and libraries that are disappearing but museums, theaters, performing arts centers, art and music schools - all those places where I felt at home have joined the list of endangered species. The San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe and my own hometown paper, The Washington Post, have all closed their weekend book review sections, leaving books orphaned and stranded, poor cousins to television and the movies. In a sign of the times, the Bloomberg News website recently transferred its book coverage to the Luxury section, alongside yachts, sports clubs and wine, as if to signal that books are an idle indulgence of the super-rich. But if there is one thing that should not be denied to anyone rich or poor it is the opportunity to dream. ~ Azar Nafisi
Performing Arts quotes by Azar Nafisi
I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years. ~ Jenna Ushkowitz
Performing Arts quotes by Jenna Ushkowitz
I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship. ~ Anthony Anderson
Performing Arts quotes by Anthony Anderson
An artist who works with his hands, his head and his heart at the same time creates a masterpiece. ~ Amit Kalantri
Performing Arts quotes by Amit Kalantri
Strategy is the craft of the warrior. ~ Miyamoto Musashi
Performing Arts quotes by Miyamoto Musashi
Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can't be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the Solitude of the Author's Life, and lock themselves into cork-lined rooms or droop around in bars in order to whine better. But although most writing is done in solitude, I believe that it is done, like all the arts, for an audience. That is to say, with an audience. All the arts are performance arts, only some of them are sneakier about it than others. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Performing Arts quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Violet had carefully chosen some long-hanging, loose-fitting basketball shorts to wear over her swimsuit, in hopes of keeping her injuries at least partially hidden. But it didn't take long before one . . . and then two . . . and then at least twenty of her friends had noticed her bandages peeking out from beneath the swishing fabric, and she was forced to recount her morning accident.
Jay loved hearing her tell the story, and every time he heard her talking about it, he would come over so that he could interject, and of course embellish, his role in the events. In his version, he was her champion, practically carrying her from the woods and performing near-miraculous medical feats to save her legs from complete amputation. Violet, and annoyingly every other girl within earshot, couldn't help but giggle while he jokingly sang his own praises.
Violet happened to walk up just in time to hear Jay recounting his version once more to a group of eager admirers.
"Hero? I wouldn't say hero . . ." he quipped.
Violet rolled her eyes, turning to Grady Spencer, a friend of theirs from school. "Can you believe him?"
Grady gave her a concerned look. "Seriously, are you okay, Violet? It sounds like it was pretty bad."
Violet was embarrassed that Jay's exaggerations were actually dredging up real sympathy from others. "It's fine," she assured him, and when Grady didn't look convinced, she added, "Really, I just tripped."
She reached out and shoved Jay. "Wil ~ Kimberly Derting
Performing Arts quotes by Kimberly Derting
Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them. ~ Northrop Frye
Performing Arts quotes by Northrop Frye
I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate. ~ Kelly Hu
Performing Arts quotes by Kelly Hu
Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the citizens of Antioch. The arts of luxury were honoured; the serious and manly virtues were the subject of ridicule; and the contempt for female modesty and reverent age announced the universal corruption of the capital of the East. ~ Edward Gibbon
Performing Arts quotes by Edward Gibbon
The biggest gift I received as a martial artist is without a question the capacity to be in peace. ~ Rickson Gracie
Performing Arts quotes by Rickson Gracie
Do you girls have hope chests?' Lloyd asked.
We certainly do.'
I don't,' said Betsy. 'My husband and I are going to use paper plates and napkins.'
Poor Joe!'
Lucky Larry! ~ Maud Hart Lovelace
Performing Arts quotes by Maud Hart Lovelace
Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background. ~ Janel Parrish
Performing Arts quotes by Janel Parrish
The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters,
in all centuries and in all the arts. ~ Richard Wagner
Performing Arts quotes by Richard Wagner
Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer. ~ Clive James
Performing Arts quotes by Clive James
My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two. ~ Stephen Fry
Performing Arts quotes by Stephen Fry
As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional. ~ Gavin Newsom
Performing Arts quotes by Gavin Newsom
There's no question about it. The arts are an extremely high-risk situation. People are willing to take these extraordinary chances to become writers, musicians or painters, and because of them we have a culture. If this ever stops, our culture will die, because most of our culture, in fact, has been created by people that got paid nothing for it-- People like Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent van Gogh or Mozart. So, yes, it's a very foolish thing to do, notoriously foolish, but it seems human to attempt it anyway. ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Performing Arts quotes by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part. ~ Ronald Reagan
Performing Arts quotes by Ronald Reagan
I just always knew I wanted to be an actor. I gave my Emmy acceptance speech when I was 11. But, I wasn't allowed to do plays and things like that. It was considered dangerous. My parents didn't think it was safe for a girl to do that, and they definitely didn't think it was interesting to participate in the arts. ~ Azita Ghanizada
Performing Arts quotes by Azita Ghanizada
The arts save us from a dreary skepticism. ~ Marty Rubin
Performing Arts quotes by Marty Rubin
I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself. ~ Dule Hill
Performing Arts quotes by Dule Hill
I'm the youngest of three sisters. We were always performing plays for each other. ~ Sarah Snook
Performing Arts quotes by Sarah Snook
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining. ~ Laura Mvula
Performing Arts quotes by Laura Mvula
Power as I possess is not, as many believe, given in exchange for a soul. To hear the ignorant speak, one would think it is merely a simple bargain, an exchange of vows, perhaps, and the power one seeks simply flows from the fingertips for the asking. But no, it is not so easy as that! The truly great gifts are not gifts at all, but treasures obtained after long and difficult searching, prizes won only through hard-fought victories over relentless, near-invincible adversaries. [ ... ]
The ignorant speak of hidden arts, but they are not hidden. Indeed, there is nothing secret about them at all; they are freely open and available to any who would pursue them. Ah, but the price! The price is nothing less than the devotion of an entire life. So perhaps the simple-minded are right, after all, in thinking of the acquisition of power as a pact in which the soul is bartered. There is no other way.
- Morgian ~ Stephen R. Lawhead
Performing Arts quotes by Stephen R. Lawhead
Neil Gaiman's "Make Good Art" commencement speech, which he gave at Philadelphia's University of the Arts. I've watched the video dozens of times on YouTube during rough periods. Our mutual favorite portion is "The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right." And, yes, ~ Timothy Ferriss
Performing Arts quotes by Timothy Ferriss
I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop. ~ Ellie Goulding
Performing Arts quotes by Ellie Goulding
Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act. ~ Thomas Jane
Performing Arts quotes by Thomas Jane
Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good ~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi
Performing Arts quotes by Soke Behzad Ahmadi
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
Performing Arts quotes by Steve Martin
Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all the arts it is the most democratic, in so far as it's instantly readable and accessible to our culture. Photography is how we move information back and forth. ~ Gregory Crewdson
Performing Arts quotes by Gregory Crewdson
Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions. ~ Plutarch
Performing Arts quotes by Plutarch
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. ~ Jean Cocteau
Performing Arts quotes by Jean Cocteau
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master. ~ Seneca The Younger
Performing Arts quotes by Seneca The Younger
1936 is a very important year: a golden time for martial arts, right before the Japanese invasion. ~ Wong Kar-Wai
Performing Arts quotes by Wong Kar-Wai
For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe that there was anything divine, but human, in these things, provided the power of the divine were overpowered by human knowledge and subjected to it. ~ Hippocrates
Performing Arts quotes by Hippocrates
A very small percentage of those in the church stand behind a pulpit or sport certain kinds of identifiable clothing. The actual leadership roster of the church includes disciples ministering in every arena of life, in business, law, medicine, education, the arts, sciences, government, and religion. The objective of Jesus's church-growth strategy was not to build a single, behemoth social institution with a limited set of ordained authorities. Instead, his Spirit was to be poured out on all flesh to effect a widening, deepening base of influence within every nation, worldview, and social institution. ~ Dallas Willard
Performing Arts quotes by Dallas Willard
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