Urmila Matondkar Quotes

I've been on stage since I was eight.

I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.

I was a bit of a backstage baby, but I wasn't at all precocious, and there was never a light bulb moment when I decided to go on the stage.

I don't know how to explain it, but ever since I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to perform.

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

I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing.

I was in my first movie when I was five. I just loved to entertain and put on a show.

I'm most comfortable on stage.

I realised that I really liked to be on stage, and that I wanted to pursue it.

I've always been obsessed with being on stage and putting shows together.

Even as a kid I wasn't, like, a natural entertainer, where I would gather everyone around me and then sing or something at family parties.

I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor. I saw my sister in a play and realized that I wanted to play make believe in front of people; I was always goofing around and putting on shows for my family.

I know it's cliche, but after the first show, I knew I liked singing, being on stage, making people happy. It just felt natural.

It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.

I had the acting bug from a very early age.

I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.

As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.

When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!

I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.

I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.

My mother always told me before shows to stand up and show them whose little boy you are.

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.

I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.