Zara Larsson Quotes

When I was 14, I auditioned for Michael Barrymore's 'My Kind Of People'.

I never thought of becoming an actress, but I always dreamt of winning a beauty pageant, and I achieved that.

I did a gig as a standup when I was eight years old. I went on holiday with my family to this holiday camp and they had a talent competition and I entered as a standup.

Probably the most fun thing we do in our lives is getting up on stage.

I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.

I'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by the most incredible authors in America to do theater. And I always said no, not knowing what it is to be on the stage and to do theater.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

I am the kind of person that wants to get up in front of crowds of strangers and perform monologues. To each their own.

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.

I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.

Rosemary was a little nervous about going onstage, but she went on with us. I saw her at a party, and a couple of months later they called me about doing the act.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I'm a ham for this stuff.

In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.

It was important for me to get a super series title.

Rankings aren't that important to me. I want a winners' medal.

I used to go to auditions, mainly for talent competitions like 'Opportunity Knocks.'

I don't know how to explain it, but ever since I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to perform.

Throughout my life, I've been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.

I learned how to sing in front of a lot of people and to hone my skills alongside some of the greatest performers of all time.

I am somebody who is very comfortable on stage because I have been performing since childhood. I have done a lot of public events as well, though there is a huge difference in my performances today and the ones from my childhood, as earlier, I used to sing bhajans.

I was always active on stage - taking part in dance competitions, skits, and plays.

I don't view interviewing as much of a performance. My whole life is in essence a performance but singing and dancing for television is an entirely different thing.

I was very shy as a kid but when I found out I could perform and have people's attention everything changed for me. My mom likes to joke that until I was eight or nine I only knew what my sneakers looked like because I constantly walked around with my head down. But all of a sudden the stage made sense and that's what brought me out of my shell and a monster was created.

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.