Missy Elliott Quotes

I really love live performing!

My strength lies in prepping. I'm not someone who can just walk onto the set and perform.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.

The best shows I play, I almost don't even remember off the stage.

People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.

I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.

I never aspired to be in a band, but being onstage is a very cool feeling. It's like you're the lord of the room. It's hard to croon and run around doing big scissor kicks while also trying to play, though. I'm still mastering that.

I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.

Acting can be very solitary, even if you're in a scene with someone else, because you worry about your own performance and if you look good.

For me, performing isn't really particularly difficult.

I love the stage - the fact that you only have one take to get it right, the interaction with the audience, and how every show is different even though you're doing the same thing.

People like Little Mix... they've got a big lot of choreography that they need to do so it's difficult to sing and dance at the same time. I think if they've got to do a big performance with loads of visuals behind, they need to possibly mime at some point.

Performing is fine.

I don't prepare for a live show.

I just was never into performing. It's just hard work. It's hard work.

I love working in theater because it's such a challenge to have the audience right there in front of you. If you mess up, you have to figure it out and keep going. There's no take two! I do hope to return to the stage someday. I really love to sing.

I am so excited to perform; I am so ready to perform; I love live performances! I think it's something so different from a track; live is just so unique and cool because the energy is just so different. I cannot wait to have live performances.

My ideal setting is I walk from the streets, backstage, and straight onto the stage. Two minutes, and I am on the stage. That way, in my head I have gone from my world and then into a social setting with my friends.

I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.

When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.