Quotes About Performance

The backstage play, in which the private lives of theater people are put onstage for the world to see, is one of the diciest of dramatic genres.

'You Can't Take It With You' has eighteen people onstage at one point. Musicals entail a larger collaboration, and I love that.

I just get onstage and sing. I don't think about how I'm going to do it - it's too complicated.

The first time I was onstage, I felt like the audience was breathing with me. I don't know if I was good or not; I just knew I was having a ball, and for the first time, I felt I belonged somewhere.

The more comfortable I got onstage, the more comfortable I got expressing myself in a physical manner. And it almost shocked people - 'Oh, is there something happening?'

If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

I love being onstage, whether it's dancing or acting - there's just something about being onstage.

When I work onstage, I want to play roles that have real, deep theatricality, that aren't the sort you would easily see on television and in the movies.

These guys were always saying, 'The minute you get onstage, it's great, no matter how much you're hurting.' But that didn't work for me. There were some nights I did not want to get out there.

I'm always onstage, and everyone there already loves me, so I go with this certain confidence.

We've played in places where there were more of us onstage than in the audience.

Playing onstage, I'm always aware of where the bathrooms are. When Crohn's hits, I have to run, or it won't be pretty.

I feel powerful when I'm onstage talking to an audience. I like communicating; it feels like my calling in the world. Knowing what you're meant to be doing with your life is pretty bloody powerful.

I would be onstage all the time if I could.

You know how Beyonce has Sasha Fierce? That's how I am. When I go out onstage, I become a different person.

I don't practice or write stuff down - everything I do onstage was just made up before I went on.

I absolutely loved improv! I felt very much at home being onstage. It freed me to be all sorts of people other than myself. It was an escape from myself, if you will. I still love that creative freedom of improv and making people laugh.

I was onstage singing with Luke Bryan, and he started singing a song that we hadn't rehearsed. Both Luke and myself just winged it.

I think there's kind of a comfortability with me onstage - and I think my cool factor is not having one. I'm not extra cool or extra different.

I didn't know if I could be funny on stage or write a joke. But I saw that there are no rules. If you're funny offstage, you can figure out a way to be funny onstage.

I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.

I think it would be fun to die onstage! Just drop dead in the middle of my show? That wouldn't be so bad.

You can do stuff onstage that you can't do offstage. You can be angry as hell and enraged and get away with it onstage, but not off.

It's not onstage as often anymore, but whenever I got anxious, I used to talk a lot more, and I wouldn't even know what I was saying... it was so bad. If I just talk myself through something, even if it's just talking about nothing, it usually gets me out of it.