Jim Nabors Quotes

As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.

Being on stage is, like, my favorite. The immediate gratification. That's my favorite.

All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

Every performer wants to sing live. That's what I live for.

You leave part of yourself on every stage you're on. How could you not live in the air somehow?

I love to perform live.

When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.

There is nothing like being on stage.

I'm always going to need to play in front of people.

Nothing beats looking out to a sweaty, packed house full of fans.

Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment.

I got to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, which is just so amazing. That stage is iconic; it was awesome being on it.

I love audiences. They are my oxygen. I only breathe with audience. When I'm alone, I am normally a miserable you-know-what.

The audience has reacted well to my comic timing. But, I also have other aspects to my acting talent.

People on the stage are desperate to do the screens, and people on the screens are desperate to do theater.

I love being on stage, nothing compares to it.

Being on stage at the Soho Theatre is hard to beat.

In the theater, I could envision myself as wonderful because of the audience response to my lines.

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 really wanted to make a record that would feel fun to play live.

For me, there's nothing like performing.

I just want to keep working with great actors and try to be good at what I do.

I feel, in my live shows, I can be as dynamic as I want. It's my comfort zone. When I get in the studio, it's more of a solitary experience, which can be good creatively.

Yeah, playing live for me is the essence of what we do.