Onstage Quotes

Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.

I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine.

I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

I have never been a different person onstage than I am off.

When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

I knew from the second I stepped onstage. I was like, yep, this is what I want to do.

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.

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.

So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It's a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.

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.

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.

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.