Christine and the Queens Quotes

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

My father was an entertainer, and he knew what he was doing.

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything.

I wanted to be a performer, not someone who introduced other performers.

There's nothing more fun than being out on stage and getting the vibe from the crowd. There's nothing like being on a set where you are there to make other people happy and to make them laugh. That's the best job in the world.

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.

I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.

I never envisioned that I would be able to bring something to the entertainment table that would fit Las Vegas. Vegas is so presentational; it's live theater and, for me, it's always been film or television, which isn't why people come to Las Vegas. So it's exciting to be apart of all of this, the thrust of the entertainment of Vegas.

I like the idea of conceiving a show and putting on a show, and especially when I got to the place where I could play theaters.

The excitement does not change. After 40 years in the business, I still find the show to be a magical moment - the performance anxiety, the litmus test.

I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.

I'm an entertainer - that's what I do.

We're entertainers. We're theatrical.

I've always been an entertainer. It's in my blood, in the sense that I've always loved doing it.

I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that's just what I love doing.

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.

As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

There's no business like show business.

Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings.

I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

I've done a lot of stage in my life, but I never had to dominate a stage for three hours.

You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.

I always knew I wanted to be a performer.