Onstage Quotes

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

I only wore makeup when I went onstage.

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.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

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.

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.

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.

There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.

While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

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.

There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.

I can't believe how much time has passed. The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a stand-up once I was 19 in New York, and now I'm 41, and I still feel like I haven't found myself onstage.

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'