Quotes About Stage

I don't need the money after 11 years on 'Frasier,' and there aren't that many great roles onstage left for somebody my age. I'm more interested in playing those roles than I am in playing bit parts in movies.

When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.

I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.

As soon as my foot is in the light onstage, I am home. It is what I love to do. It is what I have always loved to do.

Even when I go do comedy stuff live, I can still feel the drummer in me about to go onstage.

I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

Honestly, I never needed a mask to go onstage. It was me who was there, and it was always what I felt, based on what I had learned at home, in my religion, and from society. I clung to that: 'This is me, it has to be me.' And if I had an encounter with someone of the same sex, I looked away.

When I get onstage, I automatically feel beautiful.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.

I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.

I loathe the idea of going onstage in a T-shirt and jeans.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

I was onstage with Menudo since I was 12 years old. To us, the most successful one was the guy with the most fans. If you moved your hips and the girls screamed, you were getting it right. Who wouldn't want to be like Elvis or Jim Morrison!

When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.

I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.

I have a big ego, but I don't buy into it. I can't live off the ego. It's an honor that I get to be that guy onstage. It's not something I earned.

I feel so much at home onstage and so comfortable in my body.

When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.

A woman is like an actress: she's always onstage.

Singing and dancing will never grow old for me - I'd like to do that until I'm... actually, I think I'd like to drop dead onstage. I think that'd be just great.

There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage.