Quotes About Stage

So much about getting onstage is creating a connection with an audience that allows you to go different places and try different things.

When I'm onstage, I'm acting.

There is no reason why a guitar player makes the guitar-playing faces. It doesn't help you play guitar. You've not improved your skills. It's because you're up onstage, and the natural inclination is to put on a show. The rock guy faces are just as much of a front or a show as us wearing crazy makeup. It's just a different scale.

My wife and I got to go onstage at a Flaming Lips concert at Webster Hall once. We dressed up like Scientology aliens and danced around. We had a shootout onstage with Santa Claus.

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world.

We're blessed to be at a level in my career where I can afford to take out a bus of my own and bring my whole family with me, so that's great, too. The boys are out with us all the time, and it's just great to be able to turn around onstage and see my wife back there behind me.

I never used to speak to the audience at all. I never really knew what to say onstage.

I'm really fond of strength onstage and I'm not a small person. I'm 5'9'' and 190 lbs. - you can't really go on stage and be too shy.

James Brown really taught me a lot - his lyrics and his performance and whatever he does when he's onstage. I'll always call him a legend, and I'll always respect what he did.

I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.

I had a moment where I was onstage once... As a comedian, you just think, 'Be funny as possible all the time - like, funny at all costs - jokes, jokes, jokes.' That's how my mentality was.

I mean, you still can't jump offstage and go read a book. But I'm getting better at it. It is something you can manage. You can still give everything you have to the audience onstage, and have something for yourself.

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

Doing 'Life Without Makeup' onstage is what inspired me to do a book in the first place.

Going onstage is like going into battle. You're ultimately there to win. It's driven and fuelled by passion and a desire to do it.

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.

I sort of fell in love with it when I was in high school doing theater. And so, as sometimes happens when kids - they graduate high school, and people turn to them and say, 'So what are you going to do with your life?' I thought, 'Well, I like being onstage. I like being an actor.'

I feel like sometimes I get even more goofy onstage than I am offstage. I'm not trying to make the music less than what it is. Even if it's hard for me and I have to think about a lot of details, it's none of the audience's business. I don't want them to feel that I'm having a hard time.

I get nervous all the time. The only time I'm not nervous is onstage, which is weird.

From day one, we always admired male R&B groups. They would go onstage with no shirt on and baggy jeans, and girls would scream.

There are a lot of Israeli musicians in New York because you want to grow and go onstage, and eventually you have to get out of Israel to do that because there aren't enough places to play.

Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.

If I had my way, I'd always be onstage. But I won't always be able to be onstage.