Quotes About Performance

I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.

Fundamentally, I was a very shy and quiet person growing up, so it was just really difficult getting up on a stage. It was a perverse career choice really.

Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off.

My doctor told me that I would have had a heart attack on stage.

I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.

It could potentially affect my singing if I wasn't very disciplined about how I eat before I go on stage.

Before every show, I would call my mother and say, 'Mummy, I don't know how I will sing today.' But that would change as soon as I went on stage and would merge with my music. She is my best ally, and I don't want to lose her. Nobody other than her would be concerned if I had eaten or had oiled my hair. She is my queen.

When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!

I loved playing sport at school in front of a crowd; I love being on stage in front of a big audience. I buzz off that.

I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.

I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!

I experience a high on stage that I get nowhere else. I feel its like going to the gym so I won't lose my skills.

As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.

I like bringing keyboards and stuff on stage.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

When you conduct opera, you control the stage. But with a film, the film controls you.

If you are playing in 'Charley's Aunt,' and your favourite aunt died that lunchtime, you'll still have to go on the stage and play 'Charley's Aunt.'

Fate destined me to play Fagin. It was the part of a lifetime, and I was the only actor to be in the stage production and in the film.

I am somebody who is very comfortable on stage because I have been performing since childhood. I have done a lot of public events as well, though there is a huge difference in my performances today and the ones from my childhood, as earlier, I used to sing bhajans.

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

How well a team executes its plans is important, but I think keeping nerves under pressure is far more important in the knockout stage.

As a performer, you want your audience to have as much fun as you are having on stage.

An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

I wanted to try everything. I learnt a lot from playback singing. But at heart, I'm a pop rock singer; I'm a stage performer.