Mark McGrath Quotes

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that's just what I love doing.

I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.

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.

Cyndi Lauper knows how to work a crowd.

I love performing in front of a live audience and just stepping out in front of ruddy Royal Albert Hall is just something, I can't describe it.

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you.

Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.

I'm a performer. That's what I do. That and making money - it's the passion and the care factor for the people that support your passion, the people that support you, it's the kind of people that go crazy and love your stuff.

I feel joy when I do a great show. I get fun out of making other people happy. I'm a terminal people-pleaser. I suppose that's why I'm a frontman.

My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.

I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath.

I really love being onstage - that's kind of home base - but I love the camera, too. I love it all.

Every time I see a live performance of something, I'm like, 'I want to be doing that!'

My home is at the WWE. I truly do love performing. The atmosphere here isn't like anything else. It's truly where I belong.

I really love live performing!

I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

There's nothing more fun than being out on stage and getting the vibe from the crowd. There's nothing like being on a set where you are there to make other people happy and to make them laugh. That's the best job in the world.

Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.

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.

Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

The greatest feeling in the world is performing and connecting with the audience.

That's the one thing I think I have figured out pretty decently well is I'm a performer. I've always been an entertainer; y'know, growing up, that's all I've ever done.

I find that I get most of the same things I loved about performing in the ring when I do my live shows around the world.