Onstage Quotes

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.

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

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

I love being onstage.

You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.

I remember times when I was at shows and the person onstage locked eyes with me. And in that moment, everything was right with the world. I think that's part of my job, to create these thousands of moments every night. And for the rest of their life, they can say, 'You guys looked at me,' or 'You sweated on me,' or 'I got your gum.'

Also, as I've gotten older and more mature, I've become much more comfortable in my own skin. After 25 years of doing stand-up, that's reflected onstage.

That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're supposed to do - your body, your brain knows, so there's freedom. There's not fear, there's not nerves.

The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.

I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.

In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.

I have to stay hydrated so I don't pass out onstage!

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.

It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.

When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff.

I'm just not going to tour. One point I want to get across to everybody is that I'm still going to make records and I may still do some events. It's not the last time I'm onstage. It's been a part of my life for too long to quit everything. I have done it since the '80s, and I think it's time now to maybe see if I can live without that part.