Quotes About Stage

I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy.

I would go to sleep and dream about being onstage with thousands and thousands of people.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people.

Nobody plans on playing their own songs in front of thousands of people.

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!

I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the band, Beyonce and me in front of thousands of people. That was sick. It was pretty amazing that I got to travel the world with someone like her.

I'm very comfortable in a room with thousands of people.

I think actually performing on stage when everyone's facing you and you're one person facing them, that is quite a lonely thing in a strange way. You have to be quite insular from everybody else, you've got thousands of people staring at you and you're just on your own.

I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.

I grew up singing, and I played on Broadway to thousands of people, you know what I mean?

I can go in front of thousands of people on stage and not be afraid, but when there's just a few people, that scares me.

When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it's not fear.

There was a time when I was in the South, singing, and someone came to me before the show and said, 'There's been a threat on your life. Someone had phoned in and said they were going to shoot you if you go on stage.' I was singing 'Chances Are,' and I kept moving so they wouldn't have a shot at me.

I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo and a Hiwatt combo with Marshall cabs.

I would love to be on Broadway. I would love to do a three-month run, similar to how celebrities do a three-month run on 'Chicago.' Something like that would be awesome. So, I'm putting it out there.

I love that moment just before the curtain goes up, whether I'm sitting in the audience or standing backstage. It's full of expectation. It's a thrill that's unequaled anywhere.

Once you're on, nobody can say, 'Cut it.' You're out there on your own, and there's always that thrill of a real live audience.

The thrill of standing on the stage and hearing the crowd, it's the greatest feeling in the world. It's a blessed feeling.

Theatre gives you an altogether different kind of thrill which every actor who wants to grow must try.

I have done comedy on stage so when I got the chance to do it in cinema, I was extremely thrilled.

For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.