Martina McBride Quotes

It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.

I'm totally at home on the stage. That's where I live. That's where I was born. That's where I'm safe.

I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people.

I wasn't comfortable on stage for years. It was good - 18 shows. I want to do it again.

I heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I was playing Baron Fitznoodle, who was the father of the ugly sisters in "Cinderella." And I walked on and got a great big laugh and I thought that was fantastic, until I looked down and found that my flies were open. And so I always check my flies. I even check my flies on radio.

When I'm on stage I feel at home

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

I'm most at home on the stage.

From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do.

I can't remember if I had any stage fright at the first Bowl. But I did the second time.

I think my natural home was always the stage.

You know, I come from an acting background.

Acting became my best friend. When I auditioned to get into college, the teacher said you belong here, Mr. Klugman, and to hear that word belong - I never belonged anywhere before - and suddenly I belonged in acting and it was so comfortable and I loved it.

I got on stage and I went, "Oh wow. No stage fright." I couldn't do public speaking, and I couldn't play the piano in front of people, but I could act. I found that being on stage, I felt, "This is home." I felt an immediate right thing, and the exchange between the audience and the actors on stage was so fulfilling. I just went, "That is the conversation I want to have."

That is what I liked about being on stage. I was comfortable there, and I could be myself with confidence.

I don’t think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, ‘I’d like to star in the play.’

I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.

Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home. Offstage, it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage.

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

I grew up in music theater playing to the audience - singing and dancing and showing off. That's really my background. But the camera's different. I think I'm more at home on stage.

I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.

I was not naturally meant to be on stage.

I played Winnie the Pooh in first grade. I was an early adopter of standing in front of people and looking like an idiot.

I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.