Miley Cyrus Quotes

I have fun on stage, so people think maybe they should, too.

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.

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

I've always been obsessed with being on stage and putting shows together.

My father was an entertainer, and he knew what he was doing.

Some guys like myself, we like to play off the crowd.

Being an entertainer includes knowing how to connect with an audience.

I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience.

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.

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.

I do my best creating on stage.

I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.

The thing about theatre is that when it is actually occurring, when you have the audience on your side, you absolutely think you can will them to do anything. It's exhilarating.

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

Once you step on that stage, to me, that's where I feel most comfortable - performing live. So that's something would do each and every day of my life if I could.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

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!

Being on stage was all about the palpable energy of a rapt audience hopefully buying into a life onstage. The immediate connection with the audience was the best part for me. The camera is not as fun, but your work is preserved forever. There's immortality to it.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.

I think that's what makes a great show: when the performers onstage aren't putting on a show, they're legitimately just having a freaking awesome time.

I'm an entertainer - that's what I do.

Standup led me to acting because I liked standup, and I saw people on a stage, and the closest, nearest thing to me was doing plays. It was like, that's the same thing as standup - people are on a stage; they're being seen and saying things - so, because of my love of standup, I moved towards acting.

I started performing non-professionally at birthday parties and family gatherings doing 'Saturday Night Live' impressions at four. Then I started for real at seven.