#forming

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

#awe #her #i #just #knows

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much. ↗

— Ronnie Spector

#every #every night #i #man #missed

I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#back #back up #body #burlesque #come

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career. ↗

— Rupert Holmes

#assaulted #audience #audience member #career #consider

I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#advice #am #any #area #blending

Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well. ↗

— Chris Kattan

#basis #being #characters #creating #everything

If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist! ↗

— Beyonce Knowles

#beauty #creativity #editor #everyone #help

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. ↗

— Simone Weil

#any #arts #considers #critic #every

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like. ↗

— Tom Wopat

#excited #experience #front #going #i

Wide reading is important. You don’t have to like it, but it’s important to grapple with things you don’t understand. I’ve been spending the last six months getting up an hour early to try to understand economics because I need to. I don’t want to be one of these bewildered schmucks. The things that you understand will inform your writing. The bigger your mind, the better your work is going to be. You’re not born with a big mind; you have to build it. If I don’t read for an hour a day, I get ill. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#inspirational #reading #inspirational