John Mulaney Quotes

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

I get such joy out of performing for people, and you can tell whether they like you or they don't like you the minute you walk out on the stage. And they don't even have to tell me that they had a good time. I know they had a good time.

I like playing in front of the crowd and get them into it.

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

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

I'm like a big 10-year-old when I'm on stage. I just go up there and do whatever I think is cool at the moment.

I have fun on stage, so people think maybe they should, too.

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.

I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.

I've done a lot of stage in my life, but I never had to dominate a stage for three hours.

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

There's nothing more fun than being out on stage and getting the vibe from the crowd. There's nothing like being on a set where you are there to make other people happy and to make them laugh. That's the best job in the world.

I mean, you still can't jump offstage and go read a book. But I'm getting better at it. It is something you can manage. You can still give everything you have to the audience onstage, and have something for yourself.

I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.

In normal life people say, 'You're so different than on stage!' Offstage I'm down to earth, simple and a very goofy girl... I like to make goofy faces, be dorky and not take things too seriously. I just love to laugh.

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.

When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.

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

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.