Quotes About Stage

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.

I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.

When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it's like a romantic song or a happy song.

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.

Cyndi Lauper knows how to work a crowd.

I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.

Although I do stand-up - doing actual stage work is terrifying for me.

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.

I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.

I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.

If they can look past the fact that I happen to wear mascara on stage - which, by the way, is a ridiculous thing that people have a stigma about - then we promise a good rock show.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

Sting I've seen a few times, and he really inspired me in the sense that he breaks the songs down a lot and will take a different approach. He'll take an acoustic approach to them; he'll rearrange them for the live stage.

I have stolen the show many times.