Quotes About Performance

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.

You can have the best production, the best stage in the world, but without a crowd, the festival is nothing.

The Olympics is by far the biggest stage of them all for any sportsperson, so I'm looking forward to it.

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.

When I'm on stage, all is right with the world.

I would participate in stage shows during my school days.

We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage.

Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.

For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I thought that would help me carry myself around the stage in that character.

Everything you do on stage is always a response to something, not the next line.

The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.

You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.

When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.

It's really fun to be on stage in front of people.

Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

Up on that stage, my personality changes. I put everything behind me when I perform. My problems don't belong to my fans. I don't put a burden on my audience. I give them 100 percent of my energy.

International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

I don't have the ability to be a diva. I can't flaunt. I don't have that kind of stage presence. I think of myself as just a band member.

From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.

On camera, the audience can see your eyes close up - they can see behind your eyes - and when you're on stage, you need to make sure that the person sitting in the back row can feel what's happening behind your eyes, even if they can't see them. Having a live audience is exhilarating and exciting all on its own, but you know, it is quite different.

I remember when I was a kid and I used to go and see Queen play live. It was like there was Queen the album band, and then Queen the four dudes on stage playing the songs on stage, and it never lacked anything to me when it was just the four dudes playing the big songs.