Top 100 Quotes About Being On Stage
#1. I think theater will always be my first love. I've been doing it since I was nine, and there's nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.
Tracie Thoms
#2. I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
Tatiana Maslany
#3. I'm always thinking I'm messing up. I did a lot of classes. I can't stand being on stage or the only one talking in a room, so class really helped me deal with that. It doesn't really get any easier, but it helps you focus on the acting.
Travis Fimmel
#4. People who have never done theatre before, and have only worked in front of a camera, would find it very difficult, I think, to know how to command a stage and work with the logistics of being on stage. They're very different. The theatre is quite tricky, actually.
David Wenham
#5. The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.
Kevin Hart
#6. I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.
Justin Timberlake
#7. I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.
Steve Martin
#8. There's something very refreshing about being on stage.
Paul Reiser
#9. I've always been so interested in the way the body feels when singing or being on stage, or being in the audience for that matter. It doesn't have to be the typical "rock" experience. It can be so much more.
Jenny Hval
#10. I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#11. Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.
Loretta Lynn
#12. Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life ... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.
Dave Lombardo
#13. I'm not like Henry Fonda. He lives to act. I've just had a dedication to do the best I could. When I don't have challenges, the days get long. But I do enjoy being on stage. If I do good work, I get a kick out of that.
Don Ameche
#14. Films are a whole new world that I'm excited to explore. But being on stage is very close to my heart; it has given me a sense of belonging. I will always try to find a way to balance both.
Nimrat Kaur
#15. Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.
Anthony Daniels
#16. Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.
Eric Cantona
#17. You can't act being a boxer. It's like being on stage.
Liam Neeson
#18. I absolutely love being on stage. I live and breathe the stage, and nothing makes me happier, but to perform.
Judith Hill
#19. There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!
Douglas Wood
#20. Being on stage was all about the palpable energy of a rapt audience hopefully buying into a life onstage. The immediate connection with the audience was the best part for me. The camera is not as fun, but your work is preserved forever. There's immortality to it.
David Walton
#21. Drama made me happy. Being on stage made me feel alive. But I did what a lot of people do, and that's follow this path of leaving school and going to university. It was only at university that I realised the only thing that would make me a satisfied man was to do what I loved.
Emun Elliott
#22. I just love being on stage and I love making music, and as far as - it's great for narcissism, because you have all those people screaming out your name.
Macy Gray
#23. I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.
Gemma Ward
#24. There are very few things that I love more than being on stage and performing, but more than anything, I want to be a positive role model for teenage girls.
Lindsey Stirling
#25. After a gig I get to the hotel all psyched-up from being on stage and get stuck into 'Homes and Interiors' magazine.
Gary Barlow
#26. I thought being on stage was an amazing feeling, but there is nothing that can top watching my wife bring our son into this world.
Luke Bryan
#27. The thing that I love most about being on stage is making people happy ... It's my job to do that, and I enjoy it.
Michael Jackson
#28. Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.
Hayley Mills
#29. A long time ago when I was very little, I dreamed about being on stage. Some people told me I would never be able to do it, so I only paid attention to those who told me that I could.
Lauren Potter
#30. I love being on stage. There's nothing better than that feeling; ever since the first time I was on stage, I was like, 'Oh, this is what it means to be fully alive and satisfied.' I don't think anything's as satisfying as a play.
Mickey Sumner
#31. I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue an acting career. I did get in, though, and that was that.
Oona Chaplin
#32. I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.
Shakira
#33. The nice thing about being on stage is it's not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I'm up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
Adam Duritz
#34. I dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. I studied with the Royal Academy of London for 11 years, and that did not pan out, but my love for being on stage was born there. And then, I actually went to drama school in Paris, France. That's where it first started.
Diane Kruger
#35. I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.
Dana Delany
#36. I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party. It's like knocking into the human collision of everyday life and it just so happens to break down the wall between the audience and me and helps the songs communicate better.
Matt Nathanson
#37. Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I've sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh.
Francine Du Plessix Gray
#38. I'm interested in doing anything and everything that I can to squeeze the creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm kind of a performance rat, that's what I want to do, I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. I just love putting creativity into a performance.
Dane Cook
#39. From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
Zac Efron
#40. The best experience for me at CMU was being on stage so much, getting that comfort ability and learning that technique you can use with any type of work because you're comfortable with it and know your skill as an actor.
Matt Bomer
#41. You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn until you do it.
Finn Wittrock
#42. Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.
Norah Jones
#43. I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.
Idina Menzel
#44. I wanted to enjoy the process. I wanted to enjoy just being on stage and giving back and the feedback.
John Leguizamo
#45. I've always had problems with my brain, so a lot of the songs are about issues I have with paranoia or freak-outs. 'When My Head Explodes' is about being on stage, having people look at you and expecting you to perform, then literally your head explodes.
Ty Segall
#46. I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.
Nicole Ari Parker
#47. Being on stage is magic. There's nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody who's out there. You feel it all over your body. When the lights hit you, it's all over, I swear it is.
Michael Jackson
#48. I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.
Georgia Groome
#49. I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate that the stuff I was doing on stage was the same thing that I was watching in my favorite films.
Jessica Lucas
#50. Being on stage makes me come to life. When all eyes are on you, they're watching every move you make.
Joe Jonas
#51. That is what I liked about being on stage. I was comfortable there, and I could be myself with confidence.
Gloria Gaynor
#52. Certainly, being on stage is a rush.
Paul Dano
#53. Being on stage is not creating, it's re-creating.
Al Jourgensen
#54. Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off.
Halsey
#55. I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and I preferred to be behind-the-scenes. I like the seclusion of composing.
Cliff Martinez
#56. I love being on stage more than anything, and I think that's what comes across. I think the most honest representation of any music is to play it right there in front of people. It's a moment - it's all one of a kind, every little part of it. There's no repeat.
Alison Mosshart
#57. Being on stage is so much fun and enjoyable. Because it's a lot of fun, we work really hard on music programs and our eyes automatically open up. Because this is where I'm most confident and where I'm at my best, I found a way to enjoy all of it. And I'm still searching for more ways.
Kim Tae-yeon
#58. I actually love pressure. I loved playing sport at school in front of a crowd; I love being on stage in front of a big audience. I buzz off that.
Alfie Allen
#59. I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.
Paloma Faith
#60. Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.
Jack Whitehall
#61. I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.
Robin Williams
#62. This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.
Henry Rollins
#63. Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
#64. I survived on sandwiches, and I was on stage every night for six years of my life. I was working 16 hours a day between class, rehearsal, being on stage.
Thierry Mugler
#65. Then it hits me: High school is exactly like a beauty pageant. Of course. Walking down a hallway is like being on stage, being judged by your appearance.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#66. I liked being on stage; I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.
Patti Smith
#67. I loved being on stage with heroes of mine, like Gregg Edelman and Jimmy Walton, and the lovely Chita Rivera and Stephanie J. Block.
Will Chase
#69. I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.
Alan Arkin
#70. I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that's just what I love doing.
Mike Tyson
#71. What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.
John Cale
#72. Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.
Toni Servillo
#73. Being a background singer is one thing, but being on stage as the star is something else again. When you walk out there with all those people staring at you, it's like you're naked to the world. And I hate being criticized.
Brenda Russell
#74. I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.
Katie Cassidy
#75. Some people have a fear of being on stage. I have a fear of coming off it.
Noel Fielding
#76. Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo-kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element.
Doseone
#77. I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks to Master Ren Guang-yi. I look forward to being on stage performing, and writing more songs to connect with your hearts and spirits and the universe well into the future.
Lou Reed
#79. Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.
Jake Miller
#80. I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
Bebe Neuwirth
#81. For many years, there has been only one place where I am in touch with my emotions fearlessly, and that's the stage. Being on stage fills my soul in many ways, almost completely. It's my vice.
Ricky Martin
#82. If you want to be an actor because you want to be recognized on the street and have people ask you for autographs, look for another career. If you want to be an actor because you love being on stage and want to capture a person's heart, go for it.
Jaime Camil
#83. I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.
Kevin Hart
#84. I realized, that the life of a musician, even of a very lucky, very successful musician, wasn't really the life I wanted: I hate travel, I hate living out of suitcases, I hate the constant anxiety of being on stage.
Garth Greenwell
#85. After a real snake ended up on stage one night, it was well and truly pissed off about being on stage with Ozzy Osbourne, that snake was.
Ozzy Osbourne
#86. Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.
Louis C.K.
#87. The complaint with me being on stage was always that I was slightly too naturalistic and not projecting enough. I've got quite a soft voice, so that didn't help.
Lucy Griffiths
#88. I always loved performing and being on stage.
Tove Lo
#89. There's no feeling as a musician better than being on stage, sharing music with strangers. People you have never met, singing along, and making that connection with somebody is so awesome.
Mike Fontenot
#90. As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.
Laura Osnes
#91. I just like being on stage and making people happy.
Madison Pettis
#93. I never had an aversion because I was active in the drama club. If I had that aversion I certainly wouldn't put myself in the position of being on stage. Of course, in the drama club you're hiding behind a character.
Bob Newhart
#94. My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most ... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.
Garth Brooks
#95. Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons - as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment.
Chris Sarandon
#96. Once you train you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So, I think as I grow I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.
Jillian Hervey
#98. I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.
Florence Welch
#99. I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.
Dan Auerbach
#100. There's just something about being on stage and being with the people that, once that camera turns on, you find the strength to keep it cool, look good, act like you're not cold, act like you ain't nervous, act like you aren't scared. I think that comes with confidence and practice.
Prince Royce
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