Quotes About Stage

Looking at robots is not like looking at an idol. It's not a human being, so it's more like a mirror - the energy people send to the stage bounces back and everybody has a good time together rather than focusing on us.

I just love language. I mean, I love it. I love stage directions. Any opportunity to write. I hadn't written in so long, I get very crazy and miserable. I - it's like not seeing my kids: I can't do it for very long.

Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

The thing about theater that always and still kind of makes me edgy is that you work and work and work and work, and then you're just in performance mode, and then you have to just be on; the work is done, and then you just have to do it over and over again, so you're just constantly at that performance level.

Without false modesty, I feel that, when I'm on the stage, I'm the king, the boss of the situation.

If I think something's funny, I try to mold it into a joke as soon as possible. Once I have a joke, I say it a million different ways on stage until I find a rhythm and it feels like it's as good as it can be.

I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.

I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.

The monologue is one of the most difficult and interesting forms of theatre for an actor to learn.

I am only interested in being famous for my dancing. For me, the concept of the sacred monster is only about the stage - it is not about image.

I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.

I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out.

I look at performance clothes as setting the mood for the whole show.

When I got the appetite for more and more theatre, all I could think of was trying to get back to New York.

More and more, I find that I love doing comedies; that instant gratification that you get on stage when they laugh at you feels really good.

Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in the same room as the people I'm telling the story to.

I'm an actor more than anything else.

I feel that I'm a stand-up comedian more than anything else, that's my job.

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

I love the stage, but it doesn't pay the mortgage.

There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

The most difficult thing to pull off in a musical is the choreography.