Quotes About Performance

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world.

I never used to speak to the audience at all. I never really knew what to say onstage.

I'm really fond of strength onstage and I'm not a small person. I'm 5'9'' and 190 lbs. - you can't really go on stage and be too shy.

James Brown really taught me a lot - his lyrics and his performance and whatever he does when he's onstage. I'll always call him a legend, and I'll always respect what he did.

I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.

I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.

I had a moment where I was onstage once... As a comedian, you just think, 'Be funny as possible all the time - like, funny at all costs - jokes, jokes, jokes.' That's how my mentality was.

I mean, you still can't jump offstage and go read a book. But I'm getting better at it. It is something you can manage. You can still give everything you have to the audience onstage, and have something for yourself.

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.

I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.

Doing 'Life Without Makeup' onstage is what inspired me to do a book in the first place.

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 feel like sometimes I get even more goofy onstage than I am offstage. I'm not trying to make the music less than what it is. Even if it's hard for me and I have to think about a lot of details, it's none of the audience's business. I don't want them to feel that I'm having a hard time.

As long as I don't go onstage completely normal and then jump into character onstage, I assume that most fans would be able to accept me as the creator. I can comment on the work the same way a director would on his movie.

I get nervous all the time. The only time I'm not nervous is onstage, which is weird.

The most amazing thing is being onstage and watching the audience sing every song lyric for lyric.

From day one, we always admired male R&B groups. They would go onstage with no shirt on and baggy jeans, and girls would scream.

There are a lot of Israeli musicians in New York because you want to grow and go onstage, and eventually you have to get out of Israel to do that because there aren't enough places to play.

Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.

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.