Paul F. Tompkins Quotes

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

What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.

I do love to perform. And I'm ever so grateful that this has turned into a job with a future.

Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.

I never want to give up stand-up. Because I still get a thrill out of it.

I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do it.

I realised that I really liked to be on stage, and that I wanted to pursue it.

Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.

I love karaoke and totally hog the mic when I go out and do it with my friends.

I think I'd always been interested in performing.

I got the performing itch.

I love performing. I'll never get that out of me.

Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write.

I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

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

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it.

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

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

My eyes opened, and the first thing I thought of when I could put thoughts together was I want to be in show business. Never wanted anything else. I used to sneak in the costume room at my nursery school and smell the costumes.