Quotes About Stage

Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

I would love to play, perhaps not exactly Mimi in 'Rent,' but someone like her. Perhaps not on Broadway, but I think I feel like a musical is in my future. I sing, although I'm not Whitney Houston up in here. I'm a little bit shy about my singing, but I did it in school at Juilliard.

There's nothing better than renting a small, 50-seat theater in L.A. and just getting up there.

If you get involved with something on stage that makes you feel dreadful, that's a nightmare because you have to repeat it every night.

Live stage shows cannot be replaced.

The adrenaline of performing live in front of an audience is a feeling that's hard to replicate.

My sense of style is influenced by how I feel. I want to express myself because they see you before they hear you. You want to come on stage, and what you look like should represent the song you are playing or the set you are about to play or the message in your music.

It's really exciting to be able to represent the cruiserweights and go to Monday Night Raw. I grew up watching Monday Night Raw, and it's really a big dream of mine to perform on that stage.

My work has always been controversial within certain segments of the Asian-American community. This is a community that is generally not represented well at all on the stage, in the media, etc. So on those few occasions when something comes along, everybody feels obligated to make sure that it represents his own point of view.

I don't like the idea of having to reproduce a recorded song live that I sing. I have enough to do on stage. I'm really busy up there, and I'm really busy with everything I have to do for every show. Add having to worry about my voice and singing lead on a song or two, that's not something I necessarily want to do.

I go where people are hurting. I stand on the stage, and I make people laugh for an hour and a half.

When I walk on stage, it's the 'healing floor.' No matter how bad I'm hurting, I get out there and do it.

On stage, you have to hype yourself for two hours. It takes up a lot of energy, leaving me totally exhausted.

If I could borrow anything from Miley, it would be her stage confidence. For me, that's just going to come with time.

It's no use ignoring looks or charm if you're going into the theatre.

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.

Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

It's very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage.

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.

Being on stage is, like, my favorite. The immediate gratification. That's my favorite.

I didn't know anyone in my family who acted; no one in my immediate family did any acting.