Melissa Manchester Quotes

I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage!

People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.

I love and respect theatre, so I am truly honored to have the opportunity to take my voice to the Broadway stage.

I will never stop performing on stage.

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

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

What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.

I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.

I always loved performing and being on stage.

I love living on that stage. Without that, I'd die.

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.

I'd love to return to theater.

I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot.

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.

I'm an actor, so sometimes there are moments where I think about everything that's happening and I want to cry. I'm doing what I love and I will be doing it for a very, very long time - and it's amazing. A lot of people don't get to do that.

Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

I mean, I don't necessarily want to leave because I have this job, but I would love to do a good play.

I have no intention of retiring; I can't imagine not doing stand-up. That's where I started and where I'll be.

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

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

I'm grateful for any opportunity to act.

I'm living in New York, getting paid to do what I love. I get to boss people around, wear a fancy costume, dance with beautiful mermaids, and meet my fans every night at the stage door. I'm loving it.

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

I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.