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For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends. -- Christina Milian
I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship. -- Anthony Anderson
My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his monologues and stuff and rehearse in our apartment. So I used to hear him all the time doing these things over and over and over. And when I was a little girl, I used to soak up everything - like anything anyone did, I soaked it up. -- Chloe Grace Moretz
I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough. -- Carmen Electra
I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film. -- Carole King
I had gone to the High School of the Performing Arts in New York City. -- Glenne Headly
Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue. -- Kate Baldwin
I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high. -- Al Pacino
The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does. -- David Rubenstein
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
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
Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. And if you fail there, you have failed it all. -- Moshe Safdie
Our Government is pleased to partner with the Kelowna Visual and Performing Arts Centre Society, located in the heart of British Columbia's vibrant Central Okanagan region. Support for the performing arts is essential for the professional growth and development of our Canadian artists. -- Shelly Glover
I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have for martial arts, so when I was 18 years old, I started studying performing arts with the eye of getting into the film industry and went to drama school after that. -- Scott Adkins
I went to a school called Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. I went because initially I was very naughty, and my mom thought if I was busy, I'd be better. And I didn't really do acting until later on in the school, with an amazing teacher. I left, went traveling, came back. -- Daisy Ridley
Posing is a performing art. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn't know what the thing was. It's the honor what I loved. -- Elizabeth Cotten
I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket. -- Carly Rae Jepsen
I think the most important thing is to establish myself as an actor. As much as it's a performing art, I'm not really a performer. -- Zac Efron
I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood. -- Tweet
The old Atlantean sciences from the tribe of enlightenment, of which there are only a few remnants and chards left in this world, were medicine, law, computers, and the performing arts. -- Frederick Lenz
I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl. -- Allen Carr
... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice. -- Leontyne Price
I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school. -- Betty Who
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
I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies. -- Claudia Lee
I think it's very, very important that people outside the capital cities, not just Sydney and Melbourne but also Brisbane Perth Adelaide and so on, have the greatest access to the best cultural experiences they can in both the performing arts and the visual arts. -- George Brandis
I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene ... -- Minnie Maddern Fiske
I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts. -- Marla Sokoloff
I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything. -- Marlon Wayans
I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl. -- Allen Carr
Before I left for Germany, I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York, which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me. -- Nina Arianda
When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging. -- Moby
I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life. -- Audra McDonald
I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts. -- Zooey Deschanel
I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm so glad I did. I knew lots of people who'd gone there, so I always had my mind set on it. -- Katy B
My mom is an art teacher and is very much into the performing arts. What can I say? She is the female in my life and has guided me on how to act and conduct myself. A lot of my strength comes from her. -- Erin Andrews
I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years. -- Jenna Ushkowitz
I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older. -- Rainey Qualley
My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a very vibrant discourse about politics and everything that was going on in the world where I grew up. So I was genetically predisposed to go into the performing arts. -- Martin Donovan
Performing arts was something I was always part of. That was may be the only common thread that ran throughout my education, throughout my schooling years. But apart from that, there were no friends or no long term associations. That was the only thing I knew was with me wherever I went. -- Nimrat Kaur
The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting. -- Willem Dafoe
I did musical theater, and I did dancing for what it was at the performing arts high school that I went to. I went to a school where I was there on a scholarship. So I think when you're on a scholarship, you always work a tad harder, or you want to work a tad harder than the next person. -- Cassie Ventura
I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do. -- Randeep Hooda
Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted. -- Ving Rhames
I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer. -- Chath Piersath
I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe. -- Vince Vaughn
I love every aspect of the performing arts and can't imagine myself doing anything different. I give my heart to every project. -- Kelly Stables
I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction. -- Alycia Debnam Carey
Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service. -- Patch Adams
I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane. -- Beyonce Knowles
I was always a performing arts kid in general - but I felt like my ultimate goal was to be an actress and be in films. -- Mary Elizabeth Winstead
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind. -- Gavin Newsom
Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts. -- Stephen Graham
My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students. -- Paul McCartney
If I do a lot of television, than I miss theater. If I do a lot of theater, than I miss film. This global thing of performing arts gives me strength. -- Richard Sammel
I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know. -- Eden Sher
The old Atlantean sciences from the tribe of enlightenment, of which there are only a few remnants and chards left in this world, were medicine, law, computers, and the performing arts. -- Frederick Lenz
The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera. -- Dave Barry

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