Ken Dodd Quotes

I always wanted to be a performer.

I was very close to my father. At the age of ten I wanted to do plays, and my father was very encouraging. When I applied to different acting schools, he was right there and very supportive.

I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

I'm in showbusiness. I'm an entertainer.

I always knew I wanted to be a performer.

I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

I've been performing since I was very little, about three years old. I was inspired at first by the MTV artists of the '80s and started putting on 'shows' in the apartment, most of them set to Michael Jackson's 'Bad' album. In my mind, there was a full lighting rig behind me... but it was just a couch.

As far back as I can remember, I wanted to dance, sing and perform.

My parents would say, 'Why don't you go out and play?' and I would say, 'I can't! I'm putting on my shows!'

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever.

From when I can remember, I wanted to be an actress. I am a die hard fan of dancing and would take my dad's clothes and my mom's clothes and dance in front of the mirror. I loved my dad's clothes, as they had a lot of glitter in them.

My dad gave my brother and I a camera to film our football games when we were 10 years old so we could see how we could get better. Then one day, we decided to pick up the camera and film whatever we were doing.

I love being an entertainer. It's almost been a lifelong journey to find out what I wanted to do.

My father was an entertainer, and he knew what he was doing.

Growing up in the greater Toronto area, I was a happy kid. I was my mother's first child, surrounded by admiring godparents and cousins.

Music was something I chose that I came to as a kid, and acting was something that was suggested to 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 became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.

I remember when I first wanted to act my parents were supportive, but it was that they were like please, if you can find something else in the world, don't do this. So it wasn't even they're like 'Oh we've been waiting for you to arrive, welcome to the family business' kind of thing.

I never waited 27 years, because 27 years ago I was just born. My parents never told me, 'If you don't win Roland Garros we take you to the orphanage.

Performing to me is the most vital, most important. It's my favorite part of all of it. I just want to be on stage.

I remember as a kid watching TV and seeing Mel Blanc doing his voices and Paul Winchell doing his ventriloquism and thinking, 'Those guys are having a good time. I want to do that.'

I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.

I don't think of myself of a late-show host any more than I think of myself of a game-show host. I mean, I've done both, I've been an actor. I'm just kind of a carny, that's it.

I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.