Jennifer Nettles Quotes

Being onstage and communicating with an audience was part of my life since I was very little, but I was never pushed into singing.

I grew up singing, and I played on Broadway to thousands of people, you know what I mean?

Doing a musical is not just acting. It's total theater. When you have to justify the enormous projection of energy it takes to just go into song and dance, you realized why it's such a humbling experience every time you go into a show.

I figured, 'Why not go into entertainment?' I love entertaining people. I always loved being extra loud.

I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.

I am a performer; that's what I like to do.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

There's no business like show business.

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

I've always loved Broadway, but I never thought I'd actually do it because I was never a full Broadway dancer. And I don't have a big, booming voice.

I'm a total performer.

I'm a performer.

I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.

I come away from a gig thinking, 'Yeah, I'm worth something.' I can still do it and entertain people, and that's worth it.

I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.

I feel real confidence in working on the stage.

I had no intention of being an entertainer.

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.

I was Danny Zuko in 'Grease,' and I was in the musical 'Sweet Charity' and then in the musical 'On the Twentieth Century.' They were great. I mean, singing isn't really my strong suit, but I just really enjoyed it.

My senior year, I got to play Maureen in 'Rent,' and I had more fun than I'd ever had in my life.

It's really fun to be on stage in front of people.

The first role that I played as a musical - I was 14 years old, and I played Birdie in 'Bye Bye Birdie.' That was an awakening of, 'Wow, I'm good at that. People are responding.' And I hardly knew what I was doing back then, but there was something that people were seeing.

I never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.

I should be on Broadway. You have to sing, you have to dance, you have to speak well, and I'm good at all of those!

I've always been a performer.