Quotes About Performance

The most fun moments are being on the stage and seeing how the crowd reacts to your music. The energy of the crowd that makes you just want to go in and keep doing it and be a part of this forever.

My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.

I have never danced in any film of mine, barring some stage shows.

No, people don't heckle me. I think it's because there's this big, black guy on stage and it's slightly daunting.

The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.

I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious.

I made my first stage appearance when I was 6 months old.

Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background.

I'm most at home on the stage.

I knew that I was 'interesting' at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

Well, just coming off the stage and there's like 180,000 people out there and your adrenaline is going so high, and you're doing so much and it's hard to just put your head on the pillow and sleep because it just goes on and on, even after you're off the stage.

The joy of being a chameleon on stage is that you can be anything, and yet you're not any of those things as well.

I don't get nervous on a stage; I don't get nervous in interviews. I don't get nervous.

There's nothing less sexy than a girl falling over on stage. I have fallen once, but it had nothing to do with my shoes. I'm legally blind, so I fell over a monitor because the stage was black, and I had no depth perception. Mortifying.

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.

My absolute dream goal is to dance with Beyonce on stage.

On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.

When I pay attention to the little details, such as matching accessories to the entire outfit, I only get more confident on stage.

I feel that I'm at my best as a person and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way or another I think I'll be okay.

A lot of actors will complain about the green screen work, but what you do get to do is what you probably should have learned, from the beginning, on stage. You have to create it in your mind and really go there to bring it. Part of the fun of acting is those challenges. You feel goofy, but sometimes that's a good feeling.