Danny Kaye Quotes

I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath.

Acting kind of chose me.

I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

I'm in love with everything about show business. The only thing that ever came easy to me in life has been acting.

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

While acting is a passion, hosting is fun.

I love performing. I'll never get that out of me.

I always wanted to be a performer, I didn't know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.

I have always loved performing.

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

I've always known that I wanted to sing, and I wanted to dance, and I wanted to act.

I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'

I love singing as much as I love acting.

You talk about meant to be - oh my goodness, I have never done anything else in my life except be a performer.

It never dawned on me I would do anything but show business.

I've always been an entertainer. It's in my blood, in the sense that I've always loved doing it.

Any sort of performance was always what I was really born to do.

I really love both acting and singing equally.

I wanna be the best at what I do. I wanna sing, I wanna dance, I wanna act. That's about it.

I come from an era, in my world, where you just had to define yourself as who you are and what you do. I happen to be an actor. I happen to be someone that loves to act, that also likes music, that also likes to speak, and that also has an opinion.

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.

I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that's just what I love doing.