LeAnn Rimes Quotes

Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.

In Broadway, we do love jazz hands.

I'm not a DJ. I play live and think we put on a show. That's it.

Obviously we're not Kiss, but we go out there and jump around like idiots and try to have a good time and entertain people.

If there's one thing that I love as an entertainer, it's a spectacle. We all have looked up to either Michael Jackson or Madonna or Janet Jackson or anyone of those things. When I was in *N SYNC, I would watch any concert video ever and really drink it all in.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit me that I could affect people positively by performing.

Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.

I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It was quite absurd.

I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

You don't go see Primus to see what kind of new clothing I'm wearing or what my new hairdo is. You come to see Primus for the musical experience and the visual experience. I think, anyways. Maybe I'm wrong!

I'm a showgirl, as you can tell. I'm ever ready.

When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

It's one thing to turn up and jump around stage and give people a good time - that's obviously a big part of this - but I'll always get deeper than that as an artist.

Acting is a sport to me, I enjoy being in the ring and playing it.

I sell out shows. My performance is top-tier.

But acting had entered my world through older brothers. It was a basic thing: all that just looks cool.

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

I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, 'You are so brave.'

Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.