Lynn Coady Quotes

I've always liked being on the performance end of it. I've come up with different ideas, but as far as being a creative writer, I'm not sure about that. I've always liked the performance end of it and wrestling, getting in the ring in front of a live crowd.

I always knew that if I was ever going to perform something that I wrote in front of an audience, I was going to do the thing I most like to experience as an audience member, which is to be tricked.

From a very young age, my main thing was always entertaining.

I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.

I don't know what else I would do. I love entertaining people, I love communicating, I love an audience. I'm a real artist, right from the bottom of my toes to the top of my head.

I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.

I see myself as an entertainer.

You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director.

I had no intention of being an entertainer.

Just to see him come on the stage was an event. They had very high risers, and back a little bit, so he'd walk around behind the risers and right across the front of the stage to the podium, remember?

I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.

Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

Nobody gets between me and my microphone.

You either entertain an audience or you don't.

I don't have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I'm going to keep talking. I can't imagine a life without doing standup.

I can perform easily; I don't mind getting up in front of people at all. I've always sung and felt confident about that, and guitar playing isn't a stretch, but songwriting is. We all have our challenges in what we do, and that's mine.

I would sing anywhere they would invite me. That's how I made my first pesos. I used to sing at beauty pageants, local events of every sort.

When I was 20, I used to go around telling stories, and I knew where I was comfortable - onstage, talking, making 'em laugh and listen to the weirdest things. I liked being the center of attention.

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

I grew up wanting to entertain.

I am something of a ham. Yeah, I'd always been a writer. But in high school, I acted in plays. So it wasn't as if you had to drag the words out of my vocal chords.

I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people.

The whole idea of spellbinding, of being an entertainer, being the center of the stage, making up words - that let me know that writing is nice.

I love standing at a microphone and making a room of people laugh. That's the part of the work I love; everything else is extraneous.