Victoria de los Angeles Quotes

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.'

I wanted to be a singer forever. But it's not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are.

Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'

One of the great things that I loved about doing solo - which I ended up doing because I was too shy to ever try out for bands back in the day - I could sit there with a list of songs and 'paint away' for the show.

I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.

I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

I think it's hard for quieter, more introverted people to get into acting.

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.

What I always wanted to do was to be a rock star.

All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

Now when I say Sophie Ellis-Bextor I feel that's not really me because that's become this entity from doing the gigs and the shows and the make-up contracts and whatever else.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

I'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by the most incredible authors in America to do theater. And I always said no, not knowing what it is to be on the stage and to do theater.

I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.

I would be an actress for the rest of my life just because it's really relaxing. Writing is hard work, and stand-up is so stressful before you get on stage, but acting is a complete ensemble experience.

So much of performing is a mind game.

I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!

I started with the Oakland A's back in 1971 and there was press at every game and there were cameras on me when I was that young. So with 20 years being MC Hammer, I'm comfortable with cameras so when the camera goes on, I continue doing what I'm doing.

I've realized that I can do performances.