Blythe Danner Quotes

I just love to sing and dance and act. Being on stage is an amazing feeling.

I figured, 'Why not go into entertainment?' I love entertaining people. I always loved being extra loud.

Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!

The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage.

I've always been a performer.

I think if I was going to be someone for a day, I would want to be a performer, someone big, like Rihanna. I'd want to feel the energy of being on stage. I've always found that very interesting.

I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that's just what I love doing.

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'

I am a performer; that's what I like to do.

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

There's no business like show business.

I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.

When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song.

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'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.

I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.

I'm a total performer.

I'm a performer.

My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

I'm not a big sing-and-dance man.

I love to entertain an audience.