Quotes About Passion

Going onstage is like going into battle. You're ultimately there to win. It's driven and fuelled by passion and a desire to do it.

I sort of fell in love with it when I was in high school doing theater. And so, as sometimes happens when kids - they graduate high school, and people turn to them and say, 'So what are you going to do with your life?' I thought, 'Well, I like being onstage. I like being an actor.'

If I had my way, I'd always be onstage. But I won't always be able to be onstage.

My intention of making acting a career was about being onstage.

Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.

It's always been about the live show for us. We're having Halloween onstage every night.

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I'm onstage, it comes out.

I don't need the money after 11 years on 'Frasier,' and there aren't that many great roles onstage left for somebody my age. I'm more interested in playing those roles than I am in playing bit parts in movies.

When I was in the 9th grade, on Halloween night, when you're supposed to go and out and burn your city, my mom made me go to 'Cirque du Soleil.' I was kicking and screaming. This girl came out onstage, and I was instantly mesmerized. I dropped out of school and became obsessed with her. I saw the show, like, 70 times.

As soon as my foot is in the light onstage, I am home. It is what I love to do. It is what I have always loved to do.

I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.

When I'm onstage, I'm not thinking about ideas. I'm not in my head at all. It's a more physical experience.

Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.

Singing and dancing will never grow old for me - I'd like to do that until I'm... actually, I think I'd like to drop dead onstage. I think that'd be just great.

When I come onstage, I'm exploding.

I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.

Onstage is the one time in my day that I can let it all out.

I remember walking onstage in the first performance, and something hit me like a brick wall, and I just knew at that moment that this is something I had to do for the rest of my life, and I've never looked back.

I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.

I love being onstage, whether it's dancing or acting - there's just something about being onstage.