Marta Kristen Quotes

I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.

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

Ever since I was a little kid, I loved being the centre of attention. I think it's part of the reason why I loved skating. You're literally in a fishbowl. You're in the middle of the ice by yourself, and the world is watching.

I'm not like a performer type.

I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

To be an entertainer, you gotta be a little gutsy, a little egotistical, so you have to pull back sometimes when people say, 'Well, he's stuck-up.' 'Stuck-up' is only another word for self-conscious.

Every time I go on stage, it's like a first date. I put on my best clothes, shave, and get as handsome as I can. Then I say the cutest things I know to say, and I become the very best Bill Medley I can be because I want to win my date over. My audience is the date that I want to impress every time.

I was always a performer.

I have that inherent performer personality.

I've always been a performer.

I'm used to performing. I'm comfortable in front of people. I'm never the one who's fighting for attention, but I've always been comfortable.

If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything.

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

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

I'm a total performer.

By the time I was five, I was a little diva.

I've got to be comfortable when I'm on stage.

I always had the idea that I wanted to perform. I love being the center of attention - and I always love talking about myself.

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

I feel real confidence in working on the stage.

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 was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I'm a ham for this stuff.