Samantha Barks Quotes

My mother asks when I will do some theatre, and there is something about getting your 15 minute call. That is what you become an actor for - performing in front of people and getting the love from the audience.

Every time I get up and sing for people, I get such a high. I just want to do it again and again.

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

Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.

I've never been onstage in my life.

Certainly, being on stage is a rush.

The excitement of stepping onto a stage - there's nothing quite like it.

As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.

I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.

The adrenaline of performing live in front of an audience is a feeling that's hard to replicate.

Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.

I experience a high on stage that I get nowhere else. I feel its like going to the gym so I won't lose my skills.

It feels really good to be doing Blink justice. Stepping on stage for the first show was pretty crazy. I've been skydiving several times, and that's the closest thing I can compare it to. Such a beautiful rush.

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

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.

I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to audition with her. My mom was worried I would fall flat on my face because I'd never opened my mouth to sing, so she sent me to vocal lessons. I did the audition and fell in love with the entire process of a show.

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

People don't know this, but I'm going through a lot every time I walk on stage, which is part of doing theater. That's why it's so addictive, I must say.

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

The thing is, I'm happiest when I'm on stage.

People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.

When I'm on stage, all is right with the world.