Samantha Barks Quotes

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.

People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.

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.

I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do it.

Thank god, I can't sing because that would be a lot of pressure. But yeah, it's nice doing something different and that's something I really feel like is my own passion. It's also connected. Everything is connected in the entertainment business, so I have the support of my parents because they've been through it all before and they can give me advice.

I have always loved performing.

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'

Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

When I'm on stage, all is right with the world.

At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.

I love performing, and if I didn't love it, I wouldn't be doing it.

I'm glad that it worked out that I get to act and play music and perform.

I would tell my mom, 'Sit down. I'm gonna play a show for you!' I would just perform. That was always something I loved to do. There was never a question of me doing anything else.

My first dream was probably to become a dancer, but then I became a singer, and that's also a dream of mine, and I get to do it every day, so I'm living it.

There's no feeling like performing. It's magical, it's so rewarding, and it just feeds this special little part of your soul.

When I was 9 years old, I started performing around my hometown of San Antonio, Texas.

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.

Performing is one of the best feelings I know!

I love performing. I'll never get that out of me.

Whatever it is, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people. And if that's what you want from a job, then this is the best job you could ever do.

I just love to play music. I enjoy it more than anything. I enjoy it more than drinking with my friends in the pub. I'd much prefer to be playing live and playing the piano - playing is one of the most enjoyable things I do and I live for it. So it's very rare that I'd not be up for it. I'm very lucky to have something that I love so much; I don't know what I'd do without it.

Whether it's five people or 50,000 people, I always love to perform and feel very blessed that I'm able to do that.

Sometimes I'm dragging my ass out to the airport at 8 a.m. on a Saturday and I'm wondering why I'm doing this, but once I walk on stage I know why...because I'm addicted.