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Related I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting ... NEIL DIAMOND Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all. GABE KAPLAN I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance fo... DULE HILL I couldn't see a future of doing anything other than performing. I didn't like school if I... CHERYL COLE I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination. ROWAN ATKINSON Back when I was working with the Stones and with Joe Cocker and Neil Young and Neil Diamond and all ... MERRY CLAYTON I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've don... ROBERT WYATT I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized ... ROB DELANEY While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was... JACK FALAHEE I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage ... CHER LLOYD I went to a school called Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. I went because initially I was ... DAISY RIDLEY When I hit my thirties, that's when I calmed down and I wasn't so tough on myself. I wasn... NICOLE SCHERZINGER I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I'd had performing in school plays disappeared and ... CHARLES DANCE I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work ... COREY HAIM On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole dif... SNOOP DOGG I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the sho... EDDIE MURPHY When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to wo... PATTY GRIFFIN I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name... CARRIE SNODGRESS I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along. CHARLES KURALT I've always known that performing is what I want to do. There was never a defining moment. I jus... LISA O'HARE I don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared. AJAY DEVGAN The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American... REBEL WILSON I think for me, the imaginary world was always exciting. I started in New York doing theatre, from h... DILSHAD VADSARIA I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wa... JAMES MCGREEVEY I've been performing since I was a child; my mother would have to pull me aside and tell me that... AJA NAOMI KING I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond. CAT POWER I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts. MARLA SOKOLOFF I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most... SKYLAR GREY I hated performing. I love to sing but I don't love to sing in front of people. I don't have much of... ART GARFUNKEL I'm trying to be more organized, put together, and be more kind to myself. I'm really hard o... TAYLOUR PAIGE I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy won... TORI SPELLING I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and f... BONNIE BLAIR Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you... MEGAN HILTY I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. CHUCK CLOSE Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to ... MICHAEL BUBLE My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any ... JO NESBO I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself tal... RANDY NEWMAN I've been performing since 1955. I'm going to have to keep performing till I die because I... DICK DALE I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. L... ZOE KRAVITZ I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I... JONATHAN DEMME We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by perfor... ARISTOTLE We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by perfo... ARISTOTLE I was so intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an inte... BRAD PITT I can't imagine Jon Cryer performing with the New York Philharmonic isn't one of the signs o... JON CRYER Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an id... MARK HELPRIN I mean, there's definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. B... KENNY WORMALD We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any ... CHRIS LOWE I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing. ERIC BOGOSIAN Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - includ... DAN RATHER I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much. ADAM CAROLLA I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not perfo... LAKSHMI MITTAL It's different. When you perform with an orchestra it's different than performing with a piano soloi... MARC TOURRE Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by th... MIGUEL I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not h... STEVE CARELL I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent&... JACKIE EVANCHO When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that v... JIMMY REID I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for fiv... KIRK HAMMETT I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel... KAT GRAHAM Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding aro... PENN JILLETTE Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn't an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emot... SISSY SPACEK I have a love-hate relationship with performing. SARAH BRIGHTMAN And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. An... SCOTT BAKULA I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the ... ADAM LAMBERT I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different language... SANTIAGO CABRERA I love performing for kids, but you can't play down to them, of course. Then it would be 'Ca... RITA MORENO When I was 12, I played the Artful Dodger in Cameron McKintosh's production of 'Oliver!'... JAKE EPSTEIN Performing live is not my favourite. I am more of a recording person; I prefer to be private. I didn... AGNETHA FALTSKOG If, by any chance, I get to perform, then it would be a great honor for me. Especially because perfo... KIM YUNA I always give myself a three-month period where I would just hibernate and wouldn't even think a... KRISTIN CAVALLARI Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing... ARISTOTLE Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by perform... ARISTOTLE Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performin... ARISTOTLE Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging my... MARIA SEMPLE When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performi... CARRE OTIS I really like performing for people. DAN HARMON We can't afford to let high performing talent just walk away from our companies without providin... CATHY ENGELBERT We're on a roll in a way. Everybody was expecting us to do this and that, but we're just coming out ... ANTONIO ANDERSON I guess I think like deep inside, I know that it's like, it's a different kind of performing... AVICII I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by m... T'KEYAH CRYSTAL KEYMAH People ask me what it's like to be tall, and I don't know what to say because I don't kn... ELIZABETH DEBICKI I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anythi... EARL WEAVER I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I ca... DAVID MORSE I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a st... KIM GORDON I remember having a Mike Tyson T-shirt back in the day that I used to sleep in. And there some thing... ELIZA DUSHKU I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after ... CAITY LOTZ We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and S... FRED FRITH When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes... MARLO THOMAS I came out to my parents as gay, and then I realized, you know, four or five years later, that I was... CANDIS CAYNE I don't agree with superstitious routines, but there are a couple of things I'll always do b... JAMES BLUNT I'd faced a lot of rejection from labels and the industry, and it was getting hard to keep belie... RACHEL PLATTEN I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was... MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD If I had a ringtone, it would probably be Neil Diamond. EVAN SPIEGEL I really wanted to be as healthy as I could. It wasn't about getting my six-pack back. There are... MARISA MILLER Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I'm performing, I'm always thinking ab... MADDIE ZIEGLER My career is a burden, but I can't just fade out like a pathetic sore loser. More often than not... ARIEL PINK Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happ... RITA WILSON I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alic... JERRY CANTRELL I've started collecting taxidermy: I've got a red squirrel, called Steve. I made sure he cam... ARTHUR DARVILL I was so nervous about performing well I worked out a lot all summer. BRIIANA RENDE It was implanted in me that I came from a different class - an elevated class. I was cushioned by se... SPIKE MILLIGAN
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When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery. NEIL DIAMOND It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there w... NEIL DIAMOND The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotli... NEIL DIAMOND I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I wr... NEIL DIAMOND You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the... NEIL DIAMOND Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs. NEIL DIAMOND I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got. NEIL DIAMOND 'I am,' I said To no one there, And no one heard at all. NEIL DIAMOND Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives. NEIL DIAMOND Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune. NEIL DIAMOND I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a f... NEIL DIAMOND I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fab... NEIL DIAMOND I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It ha... NEIL DIAMOND Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they... NEIL DIAMOND When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my ... NEIL DIAMOND Some days are diamonds Some days are stones Sometimes the hard times won't leave me alone Sometimes ... NEIL DIAMOND All the sparkly shirts and the stage trappings - that's just the performer, the public me, ... Songw... NEIL DIAMOND I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting ... NEIL DIAMOND He's really likable and sincere, and he's very easy to be with. He certainly wasn't easygoing in the... NEIL DIAMOND Everywhere around the world They're coming to America Everytime that flags unfurled They're coming t... NEIL DIAMOND You are the sun, ... I am the moon. NEIL DIAMOND All of which I agreed to, with the exception of playing on the songs while singing, ... We butted he... NEIL DIAMOND We're happy that you're here and that you remember us, ... Remember Me. NEIL DIAMOND I made a U-turn and went back 40 years to try to recapture those feelings, ... The major difference ... NEIL DIAMOND the hardest part of this whole project. Each song has its own story, its own emotional content, its ... NEIL DIAMOND I was doing what I wanted to do, ... I was making the records I wanted to make where and when I want... NEIL DIAMOND the recordings became bigger than the songs, which I came to understand is a backwards way of doing ... NEIL DIAMOND It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier. 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