Quotes About Stage

You know how Beyonce has Sasha Fierce? That's how I am. When I go out onstage, I become a different person.

I don't practice or write stuff down - everything I do onstage was just made up before I went on.

I absolutely loved improv! I felt very much at home being onstage. It freed me to be all sorts of people other than myself. It was an escape from myself, if you will. I still love that creative freedom of improv and making people laugh.

I didn't know if I could be funny on stage or write a joke. But I saw that there are no rules. If you're funny offstage, you can figure out a way to be funny onstage.

I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.

You can do stuff onstage that you can't do offstage. You can be angry as hell and enraged and get away with it onstage, but not off.

It's not onstage as often anymore, but whenever I got anxious, I used to talk a lot more, and I wouldn't even know what I was saying... it was so bad. If I just talk myself through something, even if it's just talking about nothing, it usually gets me out of it.

There's something about being onstage, man. No matter what age I am or where I'm going, theater will constantly be the thing that accepts me and embraces me.

There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.

You don't realize how much you miss it until you get back onstage and feel that buzz.

There's a picture of me as a little girl, and I'm waiting to go onstage, and I am biting the last bit of nail I have left on my finger.

Taking pictures and stuff, I'm kind of like, shy, but you couldn't tell onstage.

I always have gotten nervous before every show. But the second I step onstage, it's all gone. It's sort of like an adrenaline rush for me.

When I'm onstage, I have to have primer. Actually, the more primer, the less makeup I have to put on.

Every time I go onstage, it's a little less 'Chris Rock's brother.'

I've taken all the mirrors out of my house because when I'm playing onstage, I feel like I'm still in high school. I feel like that kid that wanted to play in his first band, and then I look in a mirror, and it's like, 'Uh-oh!' It ain't pretty.

I think it's going to be the most difficult thing to do, to leave the stage. But if you have no lucidity about it, it's even worse because you don't see the negative side of you still being onstage.

It's definitely a high when you walk onstage and everybody starts applauding before you even say anything.

The crowd really controls how I am onstage. One show, it might be a lot of young people, super-high-energy dancing. I mirror that. Other shows, it's much more calm.

We run around onstage constantly for about an hour and 45 minutes, and we know what that can do. You just feel great at the end of the night and when you wake up in the morning.

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.

I love getting to be onstage with so many great musicians.

Working with film directors helps me grow, but nothing like the incremental jumps I make onstage.

It's not about me. It's about what I'm doing for kids. When I walk out onstage, there's 15,000 kids that, to me, represent potential.