Tom Segura Quotes

I feel like so much of why I sort of want to work in television is so that people know to come see me live.

I'm an entertainer - that's what I do.

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.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.

I need to show the world that my final goal is to perform huge concerts like Madonna.

If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and 'Python' achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans - George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant. Promoters saw that and liked it.

Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.

And the live show is still our main thing.

I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

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

Fans want more; they want you to perform in their living room. That's the nature of the beast.

I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.

I've always been obsessed with being on stage and putting shows together.

I will continue to do TV so long as I get to prove my acting prowess.

I always want to be touring.

You can call us what you want, but at the end of the day, we're entertainers.

I'm just happy that a couple folks still know my name, and that I'm still able to sell out venues when I perform live.

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.

What I always wanted to do was to be a rock star.

All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform.

As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.