Annie Potts Quotes

I feel real confidence in working on the stage.

From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

I knew from the second I stepped onstage. I was like, yep, this is what I want to do.

I look at is as one single entity. I dehumanize the audience. This way, I don't get nervous, you know?

I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.

I was super shy as a kid, and theater was a way that everything made sense to me.

Getting up in front of an audience is my biggest motivation.

I used to be afraid of looking at the audience.

I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

Yes, yes, theater in general is just going to always be my first love, performing for a live audience.

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

I feel like I own the stage.

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

Onstage, I find absolutely nothing but exhilaration in not talking.

I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now I know how to turn an audience on again.

Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.

As soon as my foot is in the light onstage, I am home. It is what I love to do. It is what I have always loved to do.

I love to entertain an audience.

I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.

In high school, I was too shy to perform. It's one thing to get laughs from your family, to be funny at parties and in class. It's another thing to get up on the stage.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

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.

I just liked the feeling of being on stage.