Sebastian Maniscalco Quotes

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

I feel so much at home onstage and so comfortable in my body.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed, 'Here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.'

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I'm more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can't quite explain.

It was a big step, to go from not talking to people to stepping on to a stage. That's when I felt the most comfortable, because I could do anything I wanted to and say anything I wanted to, even if people didn't laugh.

I adopted this feeling that the stage is my home, so just keep my coat on and not wear anything else.

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.

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

I was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn't do plays in high school. I was too nervous.

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.

I'm much more comfortable singing than talking.

The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed.

I never got nervous performing my own material.

I feel more comfortable in front of a camera than anywhere else.

I didn't grow up jumping in front of the class and performing, but I definitely had a hunger to be creative.

I'm most comfortable on stage.

I like to pace onstage.

I want to say things on stage that I wouldn't have the guts to say in conversation.

I'm good in front of the camera in terms of speaking or entertaining or being humorous, but when it comes to dancing, you really got to know your stuff in order to be confident. You can freeze up or get stiff, and it's just not a good situation.

That's the thing: when I'm on stage, I don't care; there could be ten people there, there could be ten million people there. But if I'm offstage, I'm, like, counting the people. I know exactly where everyone's standing, how far they are from me.