Domino Kirke Quotes

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

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

To be an entertainer, you gotta be a little gutsy, a little egotistical, so you have to pull back sometimes when people say, 'Well, he's stuck-up.' 'Stuck-up' is only another word for self-conscious.

The mind starts to do things that you didn't even realize it could do. I suppose it's the manipulation. I suppose it's the sense of power, the center of attention, and the me-ism. And performers have to have that.

I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.

I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends.

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to do anything else. The closest thing to school I did was looking in the mirror one hundred times a day and repeating, 'People should listen to you talk.'

I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

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

Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be so much about me.

I am a little bit of an egomaniac. I like being in front of the camera, so I take advantage of it when I can.

People who want to do stand-up from the start - I mean that's an extremely self-centred thing to want, isn't it?

If I go on stage and I think I look cool and I think I'm playing well, that's what it's all about, I think.

On stage, I feel like I'm invincible, like nothing bad can happen. I can be myself. I feel like I shrink when I'm off stage.

Like, your body has to get used to being in front of people. Like - and you have to be like - you have to be kind of a ham, you know? Like, the thing about writers is they're generally self - comedy writers - self-loathing, sort of play small. And as a, like, performer, you have to think like a comedy writer but act like a performer.

When I go on stage and perform, I'm an extreme version of myself.

The entertainment thing - you're there to entertain, it's not about you - I get that, but for a while I lost my opinion.

Find me any performer anywhere who isn't egocentric. You'd better believe you're good, or you've got no business being out there.

I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.

I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.

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.

You can't lose your concentration at all. And there are times when you're on the stage, and you've got silence, which is wonderful, but you have to have the confidence to make you realize it's fine. You can't suddenly wobble and think, 'They're not interested.'