Quotes About Performance

I had no inclination to perform as a kid. I was a shy child - I always had my nose in a library book. I didn't start acting until I went to college. Once I started, it seemed to fit like a glove. I felt completely at home on stage. It was the perfect way for me to express myself, even better than writing.

In high school, I was too shy to perform. It's one thing to get laughs from your family, to be funny at parties and in class. It's another thing to get up on the stage.

I was never pushed into the industry. I was a very shy child. I was not one to perform for friends and family at every get-together.

I'm a terrible singer, but I'm not shy about it. I'm shy about dancing.

As actors, we don't shy away from saying, 'I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to meet girls.' Directors cannot say the same thing.

Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.

I don't really understand it: in real life, I'm often so shy - paralysingly so - but when I'm performing, it's totally different. I feel free.

I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.

I can secretly sing. But I am extremely shy when it comes to singing in public.

My mom is an entertainment attorney, and she brought me to a BMI panel for people who were interested in becoming artists. While I was there, her friends kept peer pressuring me to go and sing in front of everyone because I was a very, very shy girl.

I was very shy about acting. I thought you had to be confident. I was confident with my friends, but I would never think of acting in front of anyone else.

I was a shy little kid, and getting up in front of people and making them laugh and being able to carry on a dialogue rather than a monologue was something that was pretty interesting to me because you could set yourself up - you could ask a question and then answer it.

I could never imagine myself acting in front of a camera or doing anything in front of the camera. I was a very shy girl.

Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time.

On the first recording, I wasn't singing out that much; I was shy with my singing.

In regard to performing, it couldn't be funnier that I ended up being an actor, because I'm really shy. Unless I'm really comfortable with a person.

I didn't think rap was me. But I was shy to sing in front of people. It'd be so off because I was shy.

I was a very shy kid. Very shy. But I started doing theatre when I was six years old, and that really changed something. My more playful side came out of me.

I'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by the most incredible authors in America to do theater. And I always said no, not knowing what it is to be on the stage and to do theater.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

From the core, I'm a shy person, but when I'm on stage, I know how to put it aside. Of course, I'm not perfect, but I've definitely grown as far as being comfortable on stage.

Dance really built my confidence on stage. I'm still a shy person. But I have a lot more confidence than I did when I started.

I was quite a shy person growing up, and drag was very much a shield for me to perform behind.

Doing comedy is very challenging, as I am a shy person in real life.