Quotes About Performing

I was a music theater nerd in high school.

I've done panto down the years, I love that. So never say never for anything.

Gujarati movies and theatre will never take a backseat for me. In fact, I want to do Marathi films too.

I seem to get cast as one of two extremes. Either I play the butch heavy or totally nice guys.

I had a niche. And my niche was that I was brown. So it's like, 'Great, I get to go up for all these 'brown parts.'' I call them 'brown parts' because that's what they are. That's not to be resentful, because I loved playing those parts - I got to meet so many cool actors.

Nick Kroll, A.D. Miles, Chelsea Peretti - those were the people I was always doing open mics with.

There was something in Nick, becoming the Broadway star that he was and working from the age of 7, being on Broadway for four years, and then doing the music.

I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.

I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.

I was five or six when I joined SAG, and Equity I joined when I was nine.

I have no problem in doing comedy, as I am happily consolidating my image of a comic actor.

Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job it would let me go around the world.

The time had come to bring his apprentice deeper into the Sith mysteries he had been investigating for most of his life; to introduce him to the miracles he was performing on Aborah.

I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.

I have played Polynesian. I have played an Arabian girl. I played an East Indian girl. And what was so confusing about that, which I mention in my book, is that I assumed I had to have an accent. Nobody said anything, so I made up what I call the universal ethnic accent, and they all sounded alike. It didn't matter who I was playing.

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

I came to Broadway through Indiana University.

I think standup is pretty good for an introvert because you are performing, but, I mean, it's on your own terms. There are so many people in the room, but it's a one-sided conversation. And you actually don't have to interact - unless you want to.

I just loved jokes so much as a child. I remember wanting to perform at, like... age seven by reading from a kids' joke book, and my parents being like, 'That's not what standup comedy is,' and me being like, 'Not yet it isn't! I'm going to change the game.'

I did a lot of standup from ages 19 to 24 but then stopped to focus on sketch with Broken Lizard.

I've been asked to do 'American Idol' and 'X Factor.' I'm an Ed McMahon kind of girl. 'Star Search?' I'm in, all day long. It felt more authentic, and the market wasn't oversaturated with karaoke contests.

I thought I would be a dramatic actor - everyone starts that way.

As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.