#forming

I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out. ↗

— Steve Martin

#being #ego #found #front #high

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself. ↗

— Steve Martin

#andy #bedroom #day #friend #had

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

#book #definitely #doing #how #i

I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#i #just #other #outside #performing

I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently. ↗

— Joseph Murray

#i #interested #performing #permanently #skin

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#business #direction #having #instincts #involved

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

#bathed #comfortably #down #dressed #i

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things. ↗

— Luciano Pavarotti

#any #art #command #course #demand

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football. ↗

— Jerry Rice

#i #performing #playing #pressure #under

Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything. ↗

— Doc Severinsen

#anything #bands #being #big #big bands