Audra McDonald Quotes

I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style!

I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem. I'm a closeted pop star.

My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.

If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.

I remember tap-dancing and singing in front of the TV when I was a kid, telling my dad to stop watching Ed Sullivan or Milton Berle and watch me.

A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.

In my heart of hearts I believe I was made to entertain.

I always loved to entertain and show off in front of the neighbors. I would sing and dance at their houses.

I think the theater is where you stand up, and you say, 'Here is what I have to offer.'

I think standup is pretty good for an introvert because you are performing, but, I mean, it's on your own terms. There are so many people in the room, but it's a one-sided conversation. And you actually don't have to interact - unless you want to.

I love interacting with an audience. I love just being myself in front of a crowd.

I think Thespis just wanted to be a solo player, you know?

Stand-up was my entree into the entertainment world. I didn't have to act out somebody else's words. I could just stand there with a microphone, and nobody would interrupt me. It's the most narcissistic thing you could probably do.

Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

I'm writing songs that I want to sing.

Singing is the form I've chosen to express myself. It's the way I emote best.

One of the reasons why I started creating my solo show is so that I have a place to put all of the accents that I do.

I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.

Good evening everybody, my name is Robbie Williams, this is my band and for the next two hours YOUR ASS IS MINE!

If you're up on a stage, naked and solo and singing songs to people, there's not much place to hide, so you may as well confess what you want to confess and say what you want to say, whatever that is. Some songs just turn out as being more about me, and some are more through the eyes of other people, or third-person descriptions of people.

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.

I learned how to be more theatrical and have more fun, and to take a song and sing it over and over again in different ways, and make it different each time. I'm not just singing the song - it's this thing that's affecting me.

I always loved writing as a tool of expression.