Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.

I always liked performing in front of my parents' friends. My dad bought me a karaoke machine, and I would put on a Michael Jackson song like 'Thriller,' and I would come out with, like, a hat and a jacket, and, like, moonwalk in my socks, so I was always performing.

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

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.

Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

Performing has always been something I wanted to do. My dad had a video camera and I loved being in front of it.

Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits.

I like to wear platform heels onstage and they're actually hard to find. But fans started putting money in them - so now they are filled with tons of bills. It's pretty amazing.

I did my first little kids' musical, 'The Sound of Music,' at 5, in a jungle gym, essentially. I was a made-up Von Trapp child, Ingrid Von Trapp.

One time, it was really funny, I was going on stage... and they were like, 'Oh, we didn't mic the puppet! Mic the puppet!' So, that's how I know that sometimes I do a very good job, because they think that the puppet is actually, like, real.

I really loved being able to perform my songs and sing them myself.

I love being an entertainer. It's almost been a lifelong journey to find out what I wanted to do.

I'm confident when I perform but going into a horrible, boring studio and playing the same thing over and over again is really different to being on stage!

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.

I am somebody who is very comfortable on stage because I have been performing since childhood. I have done a lot of public events as well, though there is a huge difference in my performances today and the ones from my childhood, as earlier, I used to sing bhajans.

I would love to get into acting. I really enjoy acting - portraying other personalities and approaching different levels and whatnot - that would be awesome.

I think I would not be who I am if I did not have experience both as an audience and as a performer in those early days of my career. It taught me what entertainment is all about.

I started performing in college, but I wasn't writing a lot.

My absolute dream goal is to dance with Beyonce on stage.

I've learned how to be a better performer on stage and interact with the fans, make it feel like a collective experience more than just me singing songs on a stage and feeling really detached.

There was an open mic night when I was about 11 years old and I went and I played the songs that I'd written in my bedroom and it was the first night where I felt like I was myself at school.

I love to create something new every night onstage; that makes a big difference.

The main thing with my shows is that I'm professional but not highly polished. I don't like people to think they're just seeing an album in person.

Sometimes when I'm performing, whenever my puppet cracks a joke, it actually makes me laugh.