Randy Pitchford Quotes

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.

I learned a lot about my audience and about myself as a performer, what I like to do live.

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

'The Voice' gave me a chance to show people the side of me that is an artist. People didn't know what that would look like or sound like. It allowed people to see that potential.

I just want people to focus on the performance.

After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broadway, so I just started talking to audiences at different social gatherings, and little by little I became Don Rickles - whatever that is.

I've realized that I can do performances.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

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.

They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.

Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.

I had no intention of being an entertainer.

Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.

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.

I'm not just a rapper. I'm an entertainer. That's the difference.

I always go in with the feeling that I'm gonna have a good time in what I'm doing. I entertain myself when I perform. If I do that, then I can see the other performers enjoying my character.

I'm a performer. We don't retire.

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

Your job as a superstar is to manipulate the audience and try to tell your story. I like the dynamic of the audience.

I never envisioned that I would be able to bring something to the entertainment table that would fit Las Vegas. Vegas is so presentational; it's live theater and, for me, it's always been film or television, which isn't why people come to Las Vegas. So it's exciting to be apart of all of this, the thrust of the entertainment of Vegas.

The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a human being.

It's one thing to turn up and jump around stage and give people a good time - that's obviously a big part of this - but I'll always get deeper than that as an artist.

I learned so much from Jane Lynch. She was the funniest and most talented person. She taught me so much about being a performer.

Once I decided to be a different person on stage, I got the chance to be larger than life and over the top, which I love.