Paul F. Tompkins Quotes

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.

What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

I just loved the feeling of performing, of using my imagination to take me somewhere else.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

When I was in primary school, I was given a five-line script in 'Anansi the Spider Man,' and I decided to just improv and make it my own. For a second, I felt like Kevin Hart because everyone was laughing. I just continued to do it. Why not?

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

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 grew up in a very celebratory town. We celebrate everything, from life to death and everything in between. So a lot of dramatics come into my aesthetic. And I'm an actor, so that adds more to the dramatic - I don't mean over-the-top. The main thing is never to be boring.

I totally remove myself from any costumes, wardrobe, any choreography. I could care less about that stuff.

When I perform, I usually wear wigs because I love them.

The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.

I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.

Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

I'm an actor, so I like costumes.

I realised that I really liked to be on stage, and that I wanted to pursue it.

I'll never stop acting, but music is another passion of mine. I just love creating projects in the entertainment field and performing onstage or in front of a camera.

Be it in school, society, or college, I just wanted to be on stage and used to love performing.

I was always a performer even as a child; I loved delving into various characters.

I think I'd always been interested in performing.

There are other artists out there, in which some like to write and others like to perform and others like to talk, but I really just love to perform and entertain.

I think the most important thing to putting on a good show is to always mix things up. Sometimes we wear makeup; other times we don't. The point is, you'll never get the same Avenged show twice. I think it's really important to be theatrical. I mean, look at Iron Maiden!

I would do these performances around town at different places, and that's when I really fell in love with performing, and I knew this was something that stood me up and filled me in a way that nothing had and nothing could. I really just fell in love with it.