Ricky Martin Quotes

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

There is something about being on stage that's a release for me. It gets my mental energy out.

Whenever I go onstage or in front of a camera, I always want to pour my soul out because I know I have a lot to offer.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed, 'Here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.'

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

I feel so much at home onstage and so comfortable in my body.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

For me, music is so passionate, I have to give it my all every time I go onstage. Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home.

I was very insecure growing up, and even though I'm not that girl anymore, I think that the passion, that not feeling pretty and being insecure, is where my soul came from. And from early childhood, I let it free onstage.

I feel like when I'm on stage and when I'm performing - or I think when anybody is developing their talents and sharing it - I think you glow.

Now when I step onstage, I have this hour when I can just be completely myself, just a massive ball of energy. Sometimes I get so lost in the performance, people look a little frightened - but that's a good thing.

There's a joy I think people feel from... my performance.

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'

I started doing improv when I was 8 years old, so it's always been in my life. I would feel naked without it.

I just want to get on stage and sing and be happy.

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

I'm quite surprised at how out of control I can be on stage because, actually, I find I like to be in control in life. It's quite freeing, really.

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.

I first started acting in primary school, just doing little plays. And from the moment I began, something just went 'click' inside me. Suddenly I wasn't shy anymore. Instead I felt confident and happy. I can remember the enormous sense of relief it gave me. I loved the feeling of making people laugh.

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

The thing that fuels me the most is the desire to be on stage. And singing is the ultimate way of expressing all the emotions that I have inside.

I do find acting cathartic.

Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.