Quotes About Performing

I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'

At primary school, me and my best friend used to do D.I.Y. assemblies, and we'd do it as many times as we could until we got banned! We used to sing 'Hero' by Mariah Carey; it was, like, my favourite song; we were obsessed with it. We'd do it as a duet, and it's the first I remember performing.

Any character who had dark skin, I got all those parts. I could play a Polynesian, East Indian princess, whatever.

I've actually done a lot of on-screen, live-action stuff prior to 'Adventure Time.'

I did classical music when I was a teenager, but the experience of performing a classical concert felt too frighteningly pristine for me to continue with it.

Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it's just hilarious. I would miss that.

I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?

All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite. But the most fulfilling is producing.

I started out producing theatre in New York.

If you're a child, and you're on Broadway, you automatically know every other child in a production.

I was in a theater company in Houston, Theatre Under the Stars, and I was involved in about 10 of their productions.

I used to play in biker bars, different places like that.

I feel the best part of my job is meeting my fans at my shows and seeing their faces when I'm singing to them on stage.

I damaged my legs and ankles many years ago when doing concerts and falling off stage.

Although I have not done too many films as a child artiste, the advantage is that you are familiar with the world of movies and it is easier to face the camera.

When I started doing improv in Chicago, for every five teams, one or two would have one woman.

Before I even got signed as a teen, I was singing with people like Hoyt Axton and Mickey Gilley. I worked with Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard.

I went to 'The Nutcracker' every year with my grandma and aunt. Then, in my early teen years, I thought I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I went real gung-ho in that direction, and I started performing in 'The Nutcracker.'

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.

I started writing songs with my best friend Eden Rice when were in our early teens. We performed together at local coffee shops in suburban Atlanta as Kemp and Eden, until fate intervened and we were separated.

Young people are intimidating. But I really want them to like me. There is something about a group of teens that turns me into a performing monkey.

I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.

I've always been pretty reserved, but after taking drama classes in middle school to get more comfortable performing in front of people, I thought I should try out for television.