Michael Gambon Quotes

I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

I started performing very young as a salsa dancer, and every time I was on that stage dancing, all I knew was that I wanted to speak. I wanted the music to stop, and I wanted to speak.

Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.

I want to express my ideas through my music and on stage because I'm a musician.

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

Performing live is a part of who I am.

I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak.

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

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.

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

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.

When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It's obviously dress up and theatre.

I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.

It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.

I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it.

Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.

I'm looking for one of two things and sometimes they dovetail: I'm looking to go into a theatre and see a certain kind of show. And if it's not there, I'd like to do it myself so it would be there.

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