Marsai Martin Quotes

Performing has always been a natural part of me.

When I was a kid, I would impersonate anything that I would hear. It's - actually, I attribute that more to why I actually was able to become a musician and a singer.

I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.

I have been singing for as long as I could talk.

At a very young age, when I was a baby, I used to mimic all of these movies, like 'Dreamgirls' and 'Ray,' the type of movies you wouldn't think a little kid would know. But my parents thought I was great.

I don't sing as well as my mother. I'm a good actress. I'm not that good a singer.

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.

I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

I started when I was about 11, singing.

From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

I remember growing up singing; even when I was just three years old, I was singing all the time in the house. My parents said I was singing before I could even talk properly.

I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old.

I was an entertainer, ever since I was a kid.

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

Literally since I could walk... I was performing.

I started writing songs when I was eight.

People that could yodel always fascinated me. People that could sing loud always fascinated me. So I started trying to mimic at a really young age: 6, 7 years old.

I've been performing since I was very little, about three years old. I was inspired at first by the MTV artists of the '80s and started putting on 'shows' in the apartment, most of them set to Michael Jackson's 'Bad' album. In my mind, there was a full lighting rig behind me... but it was just a couch.

I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.

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

I love doing impressions.

My first show was 'The King and I' when I was five.

I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old or a year old or something like that.

There are early videos of me at three years old with a tiny guitar trying to sing 'Friends in Low Places' by Garth Brooks.

I was impersonating people way, way, way early, as far back as I can remember. And I would do people on my street for my parents, I remember. And in school, I did the same thing with all the teachers. It was just like, I mean, it was something I loved to do. I don't think there was a time when I wasn't doing it. I was always doing it.