Quotes About Stage

I'm not a DJ. I play live and think we put on a show. That's it.

Mick Jagger is one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, just for how much he puts into it onstage.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.

With Fleetwood Mac, it's an amazing chemistry that we have on stage.

I take a subject, then I go on stage, and whatever is in there comes out. You can edit as you go and continue to work it out on stage until it's something you like, but I never think about it. I just go up and flow.

Singing Flower of Scotland was the only thing that made me nervous.I don't get nervous doing my own shows.

Believe me, I've never trained in acting. All the fluidity, the confidence you may see on screen comes from my stage performances in school and college.

When I'm flying, the big stage is the best time to show it.

I've had fish come up on stage, and it's pretty disgusting. I try and discourage that. I discourage anything flying up on stage, actually.

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.

I can't shoot myself in the foot before I get in the chorus line.

It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.

Performing live is difficult. But nobody's forcing us to do it.

Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

I return to the stage first and foremost because I'm an actor, and I love it.

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.

Acting is not at all my forte.

I've done a lot of Broadway plays, and I'm fortunate they've all been so successful.

I was very fortunate to have gone to drama school in London for three years, and that was classical training in the sense that a lot of it was dominated by stage work, so I would love to go back to stage.

I've really had a great career. It's been part fortune and part my own choices that steered my own career into playing the great roles that I've played on stage in Australia and at the National and West End in London and on Broadway.