Quotes About Stage

I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

Once you get offstage you're just like everyone else, and everyone else can get into a fight.

On stage, you have to have incredible confidence, or you would stop doing it. But I don't think I will ever get to the point where I go, 'I know exactly what I am doing,' and I don't think I want to.

At the moment when I come on stage and I hear the excitement, I can feel the excitement of the crowd. That's the most important thing to me.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

I think I used Christine, who is my stage character, as an excuse to finally be myself, as if I needed to say, 'Oh this character is going to be the woman I wanted to be.'

I'm always exhausted after a show, even if it's just half an hour.

I've done a few old-style romantic leads now.

I like making people laugh, so drama was never a big leap for me.

My first major role was in a play called 'Through the Leaves.'

As an actor, if you have done theatre, the magic of it never leaves you.

I can't imagine leaving the theatre altogether. My dressing room has become a home from home.

I want people to remember ABBA as we were. I don't think that four geriatrics wheeled on stage is what we should leave as our legacy.

When you're doing a legitimate play, if you have a company of 12, it's considered a big cast.

Theatre contributes in the growth of an actor and lets one know the real worth of acting.

To get to do a West End play is once in a lifetime chance.

I don't know under what lighting I can play Juliet. Maybe with a small night light illuminating the stage.

At the end of the day, it's a very powerful voice when you're able to perform on any level on any stage and have the audience, have the attention of children. It's a gift. It's not to be taken lightly, and it can be used for good or for bad.

I want to be the physical embodiment of light, you know? And I feel like now people know, when they see the lights go off and this light-up figure appear on stage, they know that's Mustafa Ali.

If you're in rock 'n' roll, you're not supposed to admit to liking theatre stuff, but I'm a big theatregoer.

I always wanted to be in the limelight, and I found I could get it by being on the stage. That was the beginning of everything for me.

I didn't like being out in the limelight. I love performing, but that's it.

I love the excitement, the center stage, the limelight.

I don't know how to do a show not in front of a live audience.