Quotes About Authenticity

My favorite comedians are basically themselves onstage.

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

Doing 'Life Without Makeup' onstage is what inspired me to do a book in the first place.

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.

I feel like sometimes I get even more goofy onstage than I am offstage. I'm not trying to make the music less than what it is. Even if it's hard for me and I have to think about a lot of details, it's none of the audience's business. I don't want them to feel that I'm having a hard time.

As long as I don't go onstage completely normal and then jump into character onstage, I assume that most fans would be able to accept me as the creator. I can comment on the work the same way a director would on his movie.

People just get to see me onstage, and they don't get whole of me.

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

I want to be able to deliver the kind of show that I want - to go onstage with my chin held up.

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

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

If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

I'm a Brooklyn guy onstage, and I try to really feed my fans with the kind of material they expect from me.

Honestly, I never needed a mask to go onstage. It was me who was there, and it was always what I felt, based on what I had learned at home, in my religion, and from society. I clung to that: 'This is me, it has to be me.' And if I had an encounter with someone of the same sex, I looked away.

When I'm onstage, I'm not thinking about ideas. I'm not in my head at all. It's a more physical experience.

I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.

I just always found it easier to be the same guy onstage as you are offstage.

I was basically a dork that hit the books and liked to build things and did all of the things that you weren't supposed to do to be popular. But somehow I ended up onstage, playing guitar in front of everybody else.

I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Me in my music and onstage - that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.

I felt like onstage I have to have a certain amount of anonymity, like, personal anonymity, to feel loose and free. When you're up there with people who've known you for a decade, and you make a bad joke and you hear the cackling behind the drums, it's hard to get lost in the moment.

I don't know what Tracy Morgan does onstage, but I can assure you, it's no act.