Elizabeth Henstridge Quotes

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It's good that the person I'm being onstage isn't really an act. It's really me.

I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six weeks with my band, crew and choreographer to put a new show together. We'd spend eight hours per day, seven days per week putting a show together to beat the last year's show.

I love performing. The more I do it, the more I grow into it.

Every time I perform I always kind of outdo myself.

I just wanted to perform all day, every day.

Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

As an actor, you want to push yourself.

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 wouldn't say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.

I've realized that I can do performances.

I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

I put on the best live show, the absolute best live show I can possibly can.

I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.

I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do.

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.

I am still working on patter and presentation.

My act is always a work in progress. I pray I have a bad day before a show.