Adrian Smith Quotes

I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

Oh my God, I love doing acting.

They say that wrestlers are actors, and they couldn't be more wrong. The truth is wrestling and acting could not be more opposite. Wrestling is explosion, and acting is implosion.

I just love being in front of the camera making people laugh, cry, entertaining them. It's the 'nasha' of performance that I enjoy. It's my calling, and I'm blessed to be able to do that for a living.

I started doing comedy in a church.

Why do we think the people on stage are the only ones having fun?

I knew I wanted it to be a piece of theatre rather than just a concert.

I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done.

I reenact everything. I love to paint a picture for my audience. I'm a lot like Richard Pryor in that aspect. I do a lot of acting on stage, acting out and visualizing stuff. I love to do that. I'm into it so much, it just comes out of me.

I have always loved both drama and comedy.

I love doing comedy, I really do. It was perhaps my first love. And I think, as an actor, you're young and you do school plays and the reason you go 'I might do more of this' is because you make people laugh in a school play. You don't go and do Hamlet when you're nine and go: "I feel people were really moved out there!" You do a silly voice and everyone laughs and you go: "Ooh, that feels quite nice. I might make a life out of this!"

Every show, every audience is different, and I just love leaving the venue feeling like we all know each other a little bit better.

I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it.

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

I do some of my best stand-up comedy during sound checks.

Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

Women are my best friends, my best audience. If I look out from the stage and see a lot of men, I know I'm in trouble

If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.

I always wanted to do a movie, because I love the movies. They give you a chance to have an intimacy with your audience that is different from stand up. With movies, you can bring the audience in with a close up, and emote in a different way.

I'll get laughs in the places I don't want them and that makes me realize the direction I want to go in. I don't mean to get too deep into comedy here.

I'm an actor who loves doing comedy.

My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.