Onstage Quotes · Page 6

When I started stand-up, the people I admired most were the people who were the most themselves onstage.

— Paul F. Tompkins

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

— Justin Hayward

I'm someone who is quite shy, and onstage I'm quite... extrovert.

— Jain

Lena Horne - when she walked onstage, she really was Erzulie.

— Cecil Taylor

Even when I go do comedy stuff live, I can still feel the drummer in me about to go onstage.

— Fred Armisen

I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.

— John Cho

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

— Bryson Tiller

I had trouble hanging around [Shelley Long] until we stood onstage together, and then I was in heaven.

— Ted Danson

There's nothing worse than being shackled by some miniscule sort of technology you have onstage, and I think your mettle is going…

— El-P

You walk onstage and you have no idea what's going to happen. It doesn't matter whether you feel good, or you feel…

— Taylor Russell

Everyone has their own tastes. Some people want to feel like it's Queen onstage, including the dress-up thing, but that's not my…

— Marc Martel

Man, you can come see me six or seven times in a row and you'll never see the same show twice, because…

— J. B. Smoove

Whatever I talk about onstage is just my story. My fan base is broad... We all have the same mom; it's just…

— Jo Koy

If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants…

— Robyn Hitchcock

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good…

— Joan Jett

I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of…

— Taylor Swift

Stepping back into theatre, a childhood dream, I always felt like I would be onstage. I hadn't imagined myself in a composer…

— Sara Bareilles

There are standards. I like to be prepared, I guess I should say - that type of pressure of, "All right, now…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

There can be moments onstage - but sometimes in a movie, too - where you just feel you're in a golden space.…

— Matthew Broderick

I was onstage with Menudo since I was 12 years old. To us, the most successful one was the guy with the…

— Ricky Martin

If I do a bit on stage, I prepare too much. Those bits are all really, really carefully written, and overwritten, and…

— Andy Daly

Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director…

— Robert Lopez

The good thing about most of the girls that I've met on the road is that, regardless of whether they're cute or…

— Lzzy Hale

That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're…

— Eric McCormack

Taking pictures and stuff, I'm kind of like, shy, but you couldn't tell onstage.

— Tech N9ne

I just like to play and I'm always ready to be back onstage.

— Dusty Hill

I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

— Miyavi

I got into this business because you can get gratification from it the moment you set foot onstage.

— Eddie Rabbitt

People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.

— Bruce Springsteen

When I'm onstage, I'm completely comfortable, and I feel very vital and alive.

— Andrew Bird

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

— Bryce Dessner

I just always found it easier to be the same guy onstage as you are offstage.

— J. B. Smoove

I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that.

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you?'

— Kanye West

For me music is so passionate. I have to give it my all every time I go onstage.

— Elton John

I'm pretty comfortable in a car to know what I'm doing, and I'm exactly the opposite onstage.

— Michael Waltrip

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

— Christopher Walken

I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'

— Efrem Zimbalist, Jr

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

— John Oliver

I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.

— James Callis