Quotes About Performance

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.

When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.

I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.

A woman is like an actress: she's always onstage.

You never know what's going to happen next onstage.

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.

There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage.

I've heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we're the real nitty-gritty actors who're in a town where being onstage doesn't necessarily get you anything except your craft.

When I come onstage, I'm exploding.

I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.

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.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Me in my music and onstage - that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.

I felt like onstage I have to have a certain amount of anonymity, like, personal anonymity, to feel loose and free. When you're up there with people who've known you for a decade, and you make a bad joke and you hear the cackling behind the drums, it's hard to get lost in the moment.

I don't know what Tracy Morgan does onstage, but I can assure you, it's no act.

People are used to us being onstage for a while.

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

Do I show up onstage late sometimes? That's something I could definitely work on. I'm human.

If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

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 like being out onstage in front of everybody, getting that energy and giving that energy. Hopefully I am making them forget about all their problems in the world. For however many hours they are at our show, hopefully they are going to have a great time, and it makes life a little more bearable for everybody involved.

I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.

When I started out in the late '80s, my act was pretty terrible, and for years, I kind of toiled in obscurity. I don't believe in a hierarchy in comedy; I feel that a person deserves respect the first time they get onstage, and after that, they just have to be funny and get more consistent.