Jon Hamm Quotes

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

I never felt I left the stage.

Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world.

If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at the lead singer, even if you don't want them to - in America, they have those massive follow spots on you all the time; it does your head in. So, if you are a lead singer and you don't toughen up, you're in the wrong job, and you have to get out.

I'll die on the stage, man.

I don't have the genetic make up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it.

Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

I think on stage there's a side of me that comes out that's very fierce and confident.

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

Being on stage makes me come to life. When all eyes are on you, they're watching every move you make.

I think every film actor secretly wants to be a rock star as well; just that part of the job which requires the extrovert in you. Even if you've become an actor because it's your way of hiding in plain sight, there's still part of you which has that craving.

I didn't want to be a performer. I didn't want to be famous.

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.

I love being the center of attention.

I wasn't really a performer by temperament.

Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.

I always had the idea that I wanted to perform. I love being the center of attention - and I always love talking about myself.

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention.

From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.

The thing is, I'm happiest when I'm on stage.

I liked being on stage; I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera.