#performing

Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes. ↗

— James Wolcott

#cultivated #dainty #filtered #fine #fingertips

I've always said that racing in New York is performing on the big stage. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#big #i #new #new york #performing

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

#arts #audition #before #high #high school

I'd love to play a rock star in a movie, but for now, I'm not performing in public. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#love #movie #now #performing #play

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#destiny #duty #each #first #fulfilling

Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time. ↗

— Deborah Cox

#comes #draining #intense #performing #really

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#friends #gaga #i #me #new

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#better way #i #i think #just #just one

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. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#been #i #making #overnight #overnight success

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#apart #entirely #expansive #great #great virtues