Susan Boyle Quotes

I'll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer. I want to do a good show. My entire character has changed.

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.

In every house, when the curtains are drawn, there's a story going on, and you never get to hear... You get the public side of things, the happy, smiling, social activities.

Once I decided to be a different person on stage, I got the chance to be larger than life and over the top, which I love.

On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.

There is a drama queen in me, as I love acting, and I used to stand in front of the mirror and act since my childhood.

I can't perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it'll distract from the whole persona.

I consider myself not a celebrity. I'm a normal person that likes [doing] things on stage.

I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did.

Performing onstage is all about reacting in a grand way. You're playing an arena of seventeen or eighteen thousand people and it's your job to make sure the person at the back feels as cool as the person all the way in the front. Being on stage is a bit of a façade. You get to walk out there and be the coolest version of yourself that you could possibly have imagined and then you come off stage and you're just like everyone else.

As an actor, I feel like youre asked to live life as vibrantly as possible.

You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage.

If Lady Gaga didn't put on all those outfits, she probably wouldn't have made it in show business. She put a show behind her voice.

That is what I liked about being on stage. I was comfortable there, and I could be myself with confidence.

The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes of my character, and I'm in the business of entertainment. Wearing red lipstick helps get me into that world.

It's not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can on stage. I feel more like I'm doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.

I am a little crazy but when I'm on-stage, then I really get to play it up and perform and be over the top and it's like an outlet. It's fun to 'wild' out.

I love to perform. I've never lost the urge. I've never once been on stage when I didn't want to be.

Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing.

I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be performed. I think about what it's going to be like to sing them on stage rather than what it's going to be like to have someone at home listening to them on a CD. I guess in that way there's a connection between my acting experience and the songwriting and the way the songs are written.

I wasn't comfortable on stage for years. It was good - 18 shows. I want to do it again.

I think the legacy that I'll leave is just a great entertainer, and that's what I want to be remembered as, a great entertainer.

People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.

I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.

I always think that you have to have a certain understanding of what an audience would want to see from you as a public person as well as a character.