Perdita Weeks Quotes

Your stage presence is as good as your screen presence.

When you're an actor, people just take it for granted that you're really confident and can get up in front a stage full of people and just speak to them.

I feel like I own the stage.

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.

When I'm on set, I never really get intimidated by people.

I do belong on stage.

I feel real confidence in working on the stage.

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.

I might just be way too boring to ever be a really great actress.

I'm confident as hell when I step in front of the mic.

I can act... well, kind of. I'm comfortable in front of a camera.

I've never been uncomfortable being a frontman.

I'm confident about playing on the big stage.

I grew up singing, and I played on Broadway to thousands of people, you know what I mean?

I should be on Broadway. You have to sing, you have to dance, you have to speak well, and I'm good at all of those!

On stage is the only place where I really know what I'm doing.

I figured, 'Why not go into entertainment?' I love entertaining people. I always loved being extra loud.

When you're on stage, you're in control. No one can get to you.

I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he's showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it's confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn't feel like he deserves to be there.

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.