Quotes About Stage

I've always been scared to do a play. I don't know why, because doing 'Happy Days' was like a play with three cameras.

Personally, I have a hard time playing live. A big part of it is because the lyrics are really private.

In the studio, you can always stop, rewind and do it again, but on stage, you can never do that - it's a different energy. It separates good bands from bad bands, being able to play, perform and really capture an audience. I think that's the hardest part.

I think I deal with my anger toward my relationship or about my relationship or about my friendships or my family - I deal with it on stage in a passive-aggressive way, and that can be very harmful if it gets back to them, which it always does.

I hated stand-up.

I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.

I'm a control freak, even though I can be scatterbrained off stage. The only way I can have fun is if I know where everything is.

Put me on the river, put me on the golf course, put me on the stage - I'm having fun.

I get a little teary on stage sometimes. It can be really emotional when it dawns on you that people are singing along and having fun.

Ive done Hay Fever and this one was called Another Time by Ronald Harwood.

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s.

I remember hearing that when Judi Dench was starting out at the Old Vic, she used to stand by the side of the stage watching the actors around her, and I can see why: That is where you really learn!

I wear tinted moisturized since, on the stage, we tend to wear such heavy stage makeup.

I still enjoy the heck out of getting up there to play shows every night.

While performing, I can't wear anything that I'm not going to be able to dance in or heels that don't have ankle support.

I think it was about 1990 when we first wore heels to perform.

When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.

The song 'Hello There' was written because we never got a soundcheck. 'Hello There' was our soundcheck.

Jimi Hendrix was the master of live stuff. He was my inspiration to do the yo-yo, everything he did on stage was awesome.

I would love to play Henry IV, Henry V, and Hamlet.

I like to turn up my collar when I'm leaving the theatre and feel like I'm some heroic comedian figure.

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing.

I know lots of people who've never been lucky enough to get to this stage in their life. And I'm not gonna hide it for anybody.