I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

- Bella Thorne

You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.

- Barry Sternlicht

I'm a fan of making films. Whether I'm on stage or in front of a camera, one of my first loves is performing for the people. I'd like to do more acting.

- Busta Rhymes

I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.

- Brittany Murphy

The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.

- Bonnie Tyler

I've started to get used to traveling a lot and performing, but still everything has grown so quickly and is very exciting!

- Birdy

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

Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.

- Britney Spears

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

- Bill Hader

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

- Alan King

The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

- Beck

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

- Barbra Streisand

When I'm not performing? I'm looking for the next big thing.

- Ashanti

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

- Anthony Minghella

I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.

- Aaron Lazar

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

My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performing universe of her own. Activists would run a mile from her because they could not deal with what she is.

- Arundhati Roy

I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

- Annie Lennox

I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.

- Amy Lee