On-Stage Performance Quotes

The real test of a musician is live performance. It's one thing to spend a long time learning how to play well in the studio, but to do it in front of people is what keeps me coming back to touring.

I've acted professionally since I was 16.

When we shot the pilot for 'Voyager,' Armin Shimmerman, who played Quark on 'Deep Space Nine,' was very gracious and outgoing about preparing us for these personal appearances. Still, nothing really can prepare you for the first time when you walk out on stage and 2,000 people in a room stand up and applaud simply because you're there.

I became an actor when I was 22.

It's 2019. People aren't going to shows to watch a band play the song exactly like the record.

I sort of fell into acting.

All I really wanted to be was a working actor.

I've been acting since 2002, around about there.

I was 42 when I started to make my living as an actor.

I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

I'm a working actor, and that's what I always wanted.

I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.

I've said some things on stage where the crowd was like, 'Whoa, that's bad' - and I never say it again because that's the feedback I get.

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of the characters I play, but I'm fine with that, and I've certainly never envied people who became hugely famous when they were young.

I just kind of fell into acting.

All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

I once played Jennifer Lopez's werewolf body double in a sketch. I don't think anyone was shocked when the sketch got cut after dress rehearsal.

I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.

I don't write my standup on paper or anything; but I just organically do it on stage, have an idea, chat it up a little bit. I'm keeping notes. I'm trying to keep up with this world and try to bring out a special every year.

I love performing live and engaging with my fans on-ground.

I think acoustic performances and full, live performances are always cool in different ways.

I'm an actor; I'm not a director.