Amanda Crew Quotes

I see myself as like the lead singer of a band or something.

Joel? He's the rock star! When you see Joel step on stage... he's born to be a rock star.

Growing up, I was so inspired by front men like Mick Jagger, Freddie Mercury, and Kurt Cobain - real showmen that put on 'a performance' every time they walk out on stage - so it's important for me to feel like I deliver that.

Really, each part, each one of us, I think, has our role, but I think for Joe, he really stands out and has that Mick Jagger-esque feel to him.

What makes you a rock star is what are you able to do when you get behind that microphone, when you put that guitar in your hands, when you wield those drumsticks, and when you raise your hand in front of twenty thousand people: do they respond? That's being a rock star.

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

What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer.

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.

I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.

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'm a total performer.

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

Cyndi Lauper knows how to work a crowd.

I love to entertain an audience.

In the second installment, I pretty much dominate the show. Somehow or another, though, I manage to apparently dominate the first show pretty well with just my voice and my hands and a shot of my boots kicking cartridges out of the way.

I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.

Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.

I ain't acting when I'm on stage. That's why all the little love bugs who'll come and see me at Lovebox love me. They know it's the real me.

Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.

In the summer of 1991, I was on the first Lollapalooza tour. Nightly, I would watch Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell go out in front of a sea of people and within minutes have all of them in the palm of his hand. I have never seen anything like it since.

I've never been uncomfortable being a frontman.

Real entertainers love to entertain.