Performing on Stage Quotes

Acting is just a job. I'm exactly the same as that lady bringing us coffee, and I have to remember that.

There's nothing that I love to do more than act and I feel really lucky to be in the position that I'm in, being able to do it as my job! If I ever do anything other than act, it will be in show business.

I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.

Sometimes I think, 'To hell with acting' and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop. Acting is much cooler.

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage.

I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

I love to act and that's sort of my first love. That's what I started out doing.

Money or no money, acting is my calling.

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.

I love the energy that comes when I get on the mic. It keeps me creative and I love to hear what the fans want, what they love or hate about it.

I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.

Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you can express that through music, through painting, through photography, through acting - this is just another way for me to express myself.

I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.

Singing is like going to a party at someone else's house. Acting is like having the party at your own house.

Participating in Eurovision felt like coming home

My path was to be an actor and it’s been very good to me in life. It’s broadened my horizons and given me a lot of gifts.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never quite did grow out of it.

I'm like everyone else, on the stage it's good. Not too much fun in the hotel or the airplane or the bus, but you got to do it.

I can't imagine myself not being an actor.

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

My parents are proud of me being an actor.

I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people.