Quotes About Stage

I know what it means to have a leading part, and I know what it means to have a featured part.

Design is very, very critical for the success of the car. We want to find the distinctive features for Chinese cars on the world stage.

I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

A lot of stand-up is talking about your perspective in the world and your experiences in life. And I think it takes any comedian a while to find out what their thing is, or what they feel good doing on stage.

If you empathize with your fellow humans on stage, you can't help but do so offstage as well.

I got heckled off stage in Western Australia at a music festival once.

Every year in Edinburgh, I end up waiting behind the curtain about to go on stage, and I have a moment of thinking, 'No one's told me what to do with this show. I've done exactly what I wanted. This is the biggest arts festival in the world, and all these people have shown up. Aren't I lucky?' It really is amazing.

I remember a festival we did in Denmark with the Clapton band where you suddenly realize it's an actual band - and you're on an equal stage playing music together.

My first play was 'A Month in the Country' at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.

I definitely enjoy doing big festivals and big shows.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

I think on stage there's a side of me that comes out that's very fierce and confident.

What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.

I try to fill the stage with my confidence in music. Obviously, this is to offer the fans with the best music.

I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.

I started in theatre, and that took me into film and television.

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

I was lucky in my rookie year to play in the NBA Finals, to have that experience, to see what it was like to get to that stage.

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.

Derek Jacobi is probably our finest actor.

We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.

During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange... doing the love scene on the barricade.