Quotes About Performing

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

My mother, Barbara, was a dancer from the age of 14 to 19. She toured with the comedian Max Wall in a dance group of six girls.

That's where it all started for me, in clubs and bars, and I don't ever wanna outgrow that.

I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because I don't think that actors get to do much in them. They're usually just reacting.

When I was 9, I auditioned for an arts school in Toronto with a few of my friends. The sole reason we auditioned was that we found out you got to miss a couple days of school to do the audition. Without actually wanting to go to arts school, I accidentally got in. My parents encouraged me to try it, and I ended falling in love with performing.

I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.

I grew up always wanting to be a dancer, and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways. I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn't thinking about the business side of anything; I just knew that I loved dancing.

I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.

I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

I didn't know how interested I was in performing until I did 'Darkplace.' I hadn't done anything really up until that point. I didn't mind the cameras, and I didn't know that I would enjoy it.

I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug.

I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.

They didn't have the money to keep Christopher Lee long enough to play his scenes with me.

Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.

You're supported by everything in New York if you want to be a performing artist. You come here, you can change your name. You leave home, you come here, you're severed from family obligations - the old identity drops away as soon as you come to New York because you're coming to New York, if you're an artist, to be someone else.

I have some friends who love to perform and wish they were getting the attention I am getting. But that doesn't stop them from supporting me.

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.

No one was very surprised when I decided to become an actor.

I don't think you can be a good actor and want to please, because so much about performing and acting is surprising people.

It's been some surreal moments, you know from performing at Buckingham Palace to having dinner with Stevie Wonder, it's been an amazing ride.

Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.

I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life.

I understand what my gift is, which is making people laugh, hopefully. It's more on that level. I don't need to be a leading man, I'm fine with that.

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.