Quotes About Stage

Whether your audience is in a sweaty basement club or nestled in a favourite armchair, good money has been paid, and attention has got to be grabbed if you are not to be heckled off the stage or find your novel discarded in favour of the latest volume of 'Fifty Shades of Whatever.'

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

I find it pressurising coming to the Voodoo Rooms to do my hour of comedy.

Well, you know, I mean, I first did my live shows in the late 70's and in those days I had a boatload of equipment that always seemed to be going wrong.

I think it's brilliant to see players you've grown up with on the international stage come through to senior level.

I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

I've auditioned for roles that involved voice, but I don't like it. I feel like, I can't do this in front of you. It seems so separate - I don't share it with a lot of people. And I'm not into public performances.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about.

I left it for seven years before going back on stage. I know now not to leave it so long.

In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

Doing Shakespeare certainly makes you a better actor.

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.

I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition for myself.

I've had a wonderful career and shared the stage with Vince Gill, who was my second love.

When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.

Yes, sharing super-personal experiences is scary, but I can only get up on stage and perform it if I really connect with the music.

For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

Bret Michaels and Dee Snider and I know how to step on a stage and front a band, and we're not ashamed to. We're not shoe gazers.

I love stage work. The thing about plays is that they're perfectible. With film, you shoot that take and maybe another. During 'Spamalot,' I rewrote Act II three times.

I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not.