Gina Rodriguez Quotes

I would rather be on stage playing to 25 people with a band I love and the music I love than learning dance moves I don't want to do for 25,000 people.

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.

There is something about being on stage that's a release for me. It gets my mental energy out.

I never imagined I would be in colourful costumes and dance!

I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

I feel like every time I go out, I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he's just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I've seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there.

I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud... that was pretty cool.

I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.

I just like to write and then perform.

When you're a front man for a band, there's nowhere to hide. It took me a long time to get used to that. But music is my first love. I started singing when I talked.

I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

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.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

For many years, there has been only one place where I am in touch with my emotions fearlessly, and that's the stage. Being on stage fills my soul in many ways, almost completely. It's my vice.

Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be so much about me.

I don't know what else I would do. I love entertaining people, I love communicating, I love an audience. I'm a real artist, right from the bottom of my toes to the top of my head.

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.

The thing is, I'm happiest when I'm on stage.

I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

For me, music is so passionate, I have to give it my all every time I go onstage. Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home.

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

At school, I was a shy lad and still am. But acting gives me licence to be up there, demanding the focus. It's the one time in my life where I don't have to shout to be heard.