Quotes About Stage

Performing didn't feel comfortable until I was about 17. I loved to sing, but I always said I would never perform because I was too scared.

I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.

I always loved performing and being on stage.

I started performing when I was 9 or 10, doing magic.

I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.

I'm not going to play gigs as Jamie xx. I'm just going to DJ. I'm not comfortable performing my songs on a stage. It's not something I think I'm particularly good at.

My goal was always to get better roles, and in my case, performing on stage really led to great opportunities. My breakthrough came when I did Calder Willingham's 'End as a Man' on stage and was spotted by Max Arnow, who'd been the casting chief for Columbia.

I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do it.

I just get so hype - I love performing. I love performing whether someone's there or someone isn't there.

Performing on Broadway is an honor and a challenge for any artist.

Performing on stage is such a buzz. I've done stupid things such as jump off a building, but I'd never experienced adrenalin like I did on stage.

If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.

I think acting is the most difficult one among all the performing arts.

I've given myself permission to say whatever's on my mind when I'm on stage.

I definitely have a stage persona. I don't walk around scowling at people too often.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

I believe the best persona to be onstage is the one that comes naturally.

I would say I locked into my persona pretty early; I wouldn't say it's how I am naturally, but it's how I am naturally when I'm on a stage in front of people. That anxiety makes me be the character that I am.

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

it felt like he was acting a part in a play: other people spoke their lines and he spoke his, and everything that happened and everywhere he went felt unreal somehow, like scripted events unfolding on a stage set

I, too, have been bored to whimpering stage by others with reminiscent fish to fry, and oh! how they fry it! and with what exclamations and sizzling!

I'm supposed to be rooting against Joe Biden and every time he takes the stage I feel nervous that he's not going to be able to coherently string a sentence together and if I feel that way, I think Democrat voters out there probably feel very nervous about him.

I did not think that a good movie was the equivalent of a good stage play, any more than I thought an automobile ride was as exhilarating as a drive behind a spirited horse, nor a trip by steam as soul-satisfying as a voyage by sail.