Megan Mullally Quotes

I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.

From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.

You'd have to go all the way back to 1972 to find a version of me who didn't care about theater, who didn't read Playbill and watch the Tony Awards, or get why Bob Fosse's choreography was so groundbreaking that all you need to say is 'Fosse hands' and theater people know what you mean.

I want to be more physical and theatrical within the stand-up. There might be dance moments, and people better watch out - I will gallop.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and sound. I believe people deserve a show. I'm a singer, musician, dancer. I work hard, and I'm soaking wet when I come off.

I will do 'Dancing with the Stars' when my career dips.

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.

The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction.

The whole wrestling art, it's a whole form, is performance, and that's what makes it so exciting to do.

Coming out in a bedazzled tank top and silver jeans and singing 'Superstar' with a 36-piece band and 28 dancers around me is one of the dopest things I've ever had the opportunity to do.

The Fosse technique really does have to have a delicacy and an elegance to it.

The sport is called artistic gymnastics. So you do have to be a little bit of an actress.

Action is pretty boring to do as an actor. Action and sex scenes are silly because it's all faking.

When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation very natural, because it allows me to address audiences directly.

The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

Wrestling and acting couldn't be anymore different in terms of what it takes to entertain. Wrestling is explosion, acting is implosion. One really screws up the other.

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

We are all illusionists and that's why we are attracted to drag queens. This whole world is an illusion. It's not real.

Every performance is completely its own thing.

I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and also All That Jazz and other films where, where there's a kind of (influential German playwright Bertolt) Brecht-ian approach, almost to the character standing outside of himself or, in this case, he's "self-séance-ing."

For me to put a look together, if it's going to be a boy look or a girl look or whatever, is quite a tricky thing to do. I'm not doing drag because drag is seen in a certain way and my comedy has got zero to do with what I'm wearing. I could wear an elephant suit and say the same thing.

I did jazz dance for a few years.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.