Sasheer Zamata Quotes

It's one thing to turn up and jump around stage and give people a good time - that's obviously a big part of this - but I'll always get deeper than that as an artist.

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.

I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.

Every time I see a live performance of something, I'm like, 'I want to be doing that!'

I am a performer; that's what I like to do.

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.

I do my best creating on stage.

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

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

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

I saw Tina Turner do 'Proud Mary' on TV, and it was so electrifying and such a unique experience. I remember crying out of excitement, and I knew that I wanted to be a performer and make people feel excited and moved, and that's why I gravitated towards it.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.

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.

All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.

I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.