Quotes About Stage

I want to be one of those old-fashioned entertainers.

Kids don't see me as an oldies person when I go out on stage. They see me as an energy force.

'Suena' is what the essence of the Olympics are about. There are the best athletes in the world up on one stage. The love and admiration and respect for each other is amazing to see.

If you want a lot of endorsements then you'd pick the Olympics. But I've had a passion for the Tour since I was a kid. Let's put it this way: it would be harder to win a stage on the Tour de France so that would mean more. I'd take the Tour win first - but I'm aiming for both.

I think doing The Improv is a little more ominous than doing a college campus because it was so different than anything I'd done.

In a theater experience, the words and the feelings are the most important - the lights coming on and off are the only equipment.

The whole opportunity of being on 'Last Comic' gave me the chance to display me being funny on and off stage.

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.

I'd like to one day be able to say, 'I was in more than one play on Broadway.'

One minute, I really am in awe of filmmakers, and I want to be working in film, and then the next minute, I get the itch to get back on stage.

I think one of the things that attracted me about theater and the stage was the ability to escape reality. And that is what I do in my work as a writer, but in a different way. And the freedom to put your own existence on ice and become another person.

At one time I wanted to be a comedian.

I used to do this huge jump off the drum riser. I had a good way of landing so I wouldn't hurt myself, but then one time, I landed on my elbow.

I just looked preposterous. It would be 'King Lear' and I'd walk on with Cordelia's dead body in my arms and the audience would hoot with laughter. The only time they didn't laugh was when I was doing comedy.

Being an emcee onstage is mostly about crowd control, about monitoring energy levels.

I love being onstage, I love getting applause, and I love the love that comes across the footlights. It's so much a part of what I do and what I've done most of my life.

I'm very self conscious in a bikini, and I would never get my tummy out onstage.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

I hate being up onstage with a microphone.

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

You study all your life, you work really hard to do your best work onstage and onscreen, and then you make your best money playing an ant.

I don't want to be 70 years old jumping around onstage.