Debra Stephenson Quotes

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.

I've always been a cabaret-vaudeville artist - an hourlong cabaret and a floor show in a hotel - somebody like that. That's my main forte.

I've always wanted to do a cabaret.

I'm really excited to share cabaret, the art form, not just with the generations that are above me, but also my generation and the generation under me. I think it's an art form that's incredibly important, and I think that my generation is a little unfamiliar with it.

When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.

I've been involved in burlesque for a really long time and I've always been really interested in burlesque, and I was writing musicals for different studios.

As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.

I always knew I wanted to be a performer.

I would totally, if Alan Cumming is tired of doing Cabaret, I'd be like, 'I'll do it tonight.' I would have such a good time doing that.

It never became an act in the sense of an act. It was always, no matter where we worked, little revues.

Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.

My best memories growing up are of putting on musicals with my mom and dad, Both of them are real hams; it was like vaudeville in East Hampton.

I would like to record. I would like to do some cabaret acts.

I was acting before I was modelling, when I was very young, doing the Edinburgh Festival and that sort of stuff.

I did musical theatre for about four years. One time, I did six shows in one year whilst juggling school.

I now do my own cabaret act, singing and telling stories about my life.

In the early days of the Libertines, we used to put on Arcadian cabaret nights. There'd be some girl climbing out of an egg; we'd try and get a couple of mates to tell a few jokes, performance poets, and then we'd play in the middle of it all. More people were on stage than in the crowd.

I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.

What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

My dream role would be anything where I get to tap-dance.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It was quite absurd.