Bill Maher Quotes

Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.

If I'm off the stage after two or three years I get itchy and I have to get back onstage.

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

It never dawned on me I would do anything but show business.

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

Whatever it is, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people. And if that's what you want from a job, then this is the best job you could ever do.

Whether it's five people or 50,000 people, I always love to perform and feel very blessed that I'm able to do that.

Once you've gotten used to performing, you can't give it up.

I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath.

I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.

I love performing. I shall perform until the day I die.

My parents were working performers, so obviously I saw that there wasn't a lot of fairy tale going on there. It was a precarious world. One that they were deeply committed to and deeply loved, but one that required a lot of hard work.

I've been in the entertainment industry since I was five and it has always been something that has been in my blood.

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

I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.

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

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'

Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.

It is not sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago.

You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.

I'm a performer. We don't retire.

I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.