Onstage Quotes

I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

I've never been onstage in my life.

Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.

Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to.

I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!

I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section.

If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.

Sometimes I get a little drunk, sometimes I get a little out of it, sometimes I get out of tune onstage, but that's something that shouldn't be dissected.

I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.

There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.

I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.

It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.

Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.

I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform.

I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.

I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.

Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world.