Kenneth Williams Quotes

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

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.

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

Ever since I was a kid, I loved being up in front of people. I loved making people laugh; I never had any stage fright.

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

I was always an entertainer.

I really love being onstage - that's kind of home base - but I love the camera, too. I love it all.

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

People buy a ticket to see your show, so from the moment I get onstage, I can have no insecurities, because they're already there. You have to get people to listen. If they listen, everything's cool.

I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

Being on stage is what I enjoy.

I like to do talk show appearances where I get to just be myself, and I do stand-up where I can completely be myself. That's what I've always loved the most, of anything.

I'm a total performer.

If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.

I'm not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage.

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

When I come onstage, I'm exploding.

I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

Every time I get in front of an audience, I do the best I can. I really don't look at it like, you know, 'This is gonna be this crowd, or that crowd.' If anything, I think about the demographics only because of what songs will entertain more than others.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Cyndi Lauper knows how to work a crowd.

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!