#forming

When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#elvis #ever #figure #fortune #get

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#divided #least #life #my life #performing

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#class #class clown #clown #fooling #friends

I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me. ↗

— Dave Lombardo

#educational #i #into #me #performing

The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#again #get #magic #make #performing

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

#behind #career #different #earlier #felt

I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

#auditioned #canadian #college #golden #honestly

Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#around #did #festivals #i #kidding

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists. ↗

— Lara St. John

#art #artists #because #choose #decades

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror. ↗

— Michael Johns

#apparatus #created #forms #history #into