Jeff Dunham Quotes

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

The magic in performing as an entertaining ventriloquist happens when the characters come to life and the interaction between the separate personalities on stage becomes 'real.' Then don't forget that the act has to be funny, and to me, being funny and entertaining any given audience is more important than anything.

I realised that I really liked to be on stage, and that I wanted to pursue it.

As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.

I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!

I become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it's just me, a microphone and my guitar. You don't get as nervous walking into a room in front of 3 or 4 people and to do a scene or to walk on a set. You gain confidence.

When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.

I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. For example, it's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I do it a lot better than I ever did. I've really opened up a lot. And I'm glad I have because I'm being appreciated for it.

I do laugh when I hear myself saying, 'I am a ventriloquist.' I am definitely suited to it, though. I took it and ran with it quite hungrily. It is not for everyone, but it is just the chance to write for a character.

I would totally, if Alan Cumming is tired of doing Cabaret, I'd be like, 'I'll do it tonight.' I would have such a good time doing that.

I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.

I love performing. The more I do it, the more I grow into it.

I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get noticed somehow! I did puppet shows and magic shows... even ventriloquism. My doll's name was 'Dan,' and I used to write these scripts, and my schoolmate hid under the table and supplied Dan's voice.

Acting is something I've done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart's in it.

I've always enjoyed acting. When we were younger, my sisters and I would put on plays for our parents.

I suppose, back in the day, when I was on the stage, I had nothing to lose, and I did the accents.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I'm a ham for this stuff.

If I wanted to do something on stage, I wanted it to be something I could really get into and feel.

I think theater is more about living and breathing, versus TV, which can vary.

Actors are supposed to be these runaways that get in a covered wagon filled with hats and tambourines and go from town to town making people smile.

I wanted to become a better entertainer, and I learned from my brother James Andrews. And I've been studying some tape of James Brown and different people.