Quotes About Stage

My intention of making acting a career was about being onstage.

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

Half the time, when I first run onstage, I can't look directly at the audience just because of self-consciousness. It's human nature. Sometimes you feel like the man, and sometimes you don't. But sometimes that self-conscious energy is good for the show, it draws people in more.

I could never go onstage in denims.

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

Michael Buble is seriously my favorite entertainer. Have you ever seen the guy in concert? He's hilarious. Women love him. Guys want to meet him. He has everything that I wish I could do onstage. And I'm guessin' he's a good-lookin' guy - although he's not one of 'People' magazine's sexiest men.

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?

Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.

I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.

I only wore makeup when I went onstage.

I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

I'm a Brooklyn guy onstage, and I try to really feed my fans with the kind of material they expect from me.

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I'm onstage, it comes out.