Audience Quote by Sylvester McCoy

On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line in a…

— Sylvester McCoy

On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable.

— Tom Holland

When I'm onstage, I'm more in the audience in my head than I am on the stage.

— Nikki Sixx

When I walk out on stage, I don't know who's in the audience. To me, in my little fat skull, the laugh is just…

— Dave Coulier

In TV and movies, you get known for a certain thing, and that's what's expected. Onstage, people are more open to whatever character you…

— John Lithgow

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life…

— Carrie Underwood

I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about 'the character,' and what you do. It's a very different…

— John Barrowman

That's a big important deal, the way people see you from the stage. Once in a while, I'd ask people, 'How did you enjoy…

— Johnny Mathis

If I do a joke on stage and I feel like the energies a little off, I'll put my pride aside and ask someone…

— Deon Cole

Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.

— Amanda Schull

Going on stage is a performance, it's an act; you're playing a version of yourself. I don't give it a lot of thought. I…

— Lee Mack