Aldous Harding Quotes

If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything.

Every time I go on stage, it's like a first date. I put on my best clothes, shave, and get as handsome as I can. Then I say the cutest things I know to say, and I become the very best Bill Medley I can be because I want to win my date over. My audience is the date that I want to impress every time.

When you're on stage, you're in control. No one can get to you.

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

I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage, I'm that confident and that cocky because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.

The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

Being on stage makes me come to life. When all eyes are on you, they're watching every move you make.

I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.

I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.

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

See, I don't know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea.

I guess I'm a born ham.

If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.

I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

I can bring a crowd down. There should be a contest for that.

I love interacting with an audience. I love just being myself in front of a crowd.

I don't mind being a bit of a showman.

Ever since I was a kid, I loved being up in front of people. I loved making people laugh; I never had any stage fright.

I love performing for the crowd. Maybe that's what it is. I'm a crowd pleaser.

I don't want to be known as 'oh, Dervla, when she's on stage she's very good but she's terribly dreary', or 'another heavy night with Kirwan.'

I never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.

I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.

I'm not a performer. If they're looking for entertainer-in-chief, I'm probably not the guy.