Onstage Quotes
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Onstage Quotes & Sayings
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When I come onstage, I'm exploding.
— Dick Dale
When I finally decided that my only hope was to go to college, I took an acting class, and once I walked onstage, I just knew I was home.
— Ernie Hudson
I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.
— Cher
Certainly, I, as an audience, am stricken with terror if I see only two people onstage. And one person, I think, is even harder for people to take.
— Pauline Collins
I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.
— Neil Peart
A woman is like an actress: she's always onstage.
— Azzedine Alaia
I can't eat before I go onstage because I've learnt that burping on stage isn't a good thing. It's all about acid reflux.
— Jessie Ware
I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.
— Marion Ross
The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."
— Vaginal Davis
What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done.
— Jason Mraz
The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.
— Alice Cooper
I could never go onstage in denims.
— Elton John
My problem with the traditional acting method was that I never understood what you were supposed to be thinking about when you're onstage.
— Tina Fey
I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.
— Itzhak Perlman
I think that standing onstage on January 19th, and my father had just defied all expectations and won Iowa, was by far the most surreal moment.
— Vanessa Kerry
I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.
— Skylar Grey
Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.
— Nina Simone
If I ever go onstage at the Oscars, you can guarantee I'll be wearing my motorcycle boots.
— Dean Winters
I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
— Harland Williams
Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.
— Noel Gallagher
I wanna make music that I feel proud of when I'm onstage, that I feel like I put my all into.
— ASAP Rocky
I used to be more involved with every aspect of everything onstage. I'm way more relaxed now. It feels like anything can happen.
— Prince
I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.
— Sharon Jones
I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.
— Penn Jillette
Recording is a lengthy process, but onstage it's completely different; tape is not running - life is running, and cannot be rewound.
— Doseone
I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage.
— David Cross
When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.
— Kathleen Hanna
On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage ... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.
— Keanu Reeves
I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!
— Josh Groban
Back then, people were throwing their underwear onstage. I remember taking eight pairs of my own underwear to the cleaners and getting only four back.
— Dennis Quaid
I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.
— Al Madrigal
I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
— Eddie Redmayne
The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.
— Bruce Dickinson
I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that.
— Cecile McLorin Salvant
Whenever I'm onstage, I try my best not to think that I'm performing. It's simply another part of my day.
— Bobby McFerrin
Onstage, I was never the ingenue.
— Kristen Johnston
I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.
— Freddie Mercury
The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'
— Wanda Sykes
Every three or four shows, we have somebody that will come up onstage and propose marriage.
— John Tesh
When I go onstage, I kind of turn into a beast sometimes, this alter-ego, you know.
— Nicole Scherzinger
When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like.
— Nick Cave
Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.
— Steven Tyler
I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
— Harland Williams
If I go onstage, I want to give people everything they want and more. I'll wash their car for them on their way out.
— Trent Reznor
The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it's not easy for me.
— Margaret Cho
I had trouble hanging around [Shelley Long] until we stood onstage together, and then I was in heaven.
— Ted Danson
Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am.
— Paul Stanley
I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
— Questlove
I've always been like, "Look, you're going to die and it's not going to matter after you die that you got out onstage and bombed."
— Kathleen Hanna
What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.
— Daniel Radcliffe
I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.
— Lauryn Hill
All the things I do in my videos - the jumps, twirls and back bends - will also be onstage.
— Lindsey Stirling
I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.
— Carly Simon
You study all your life, you work really hard to do your best work onstage and onscreen, and then you make your best money playing an ant.
— Alex Rocco
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.
— Becky G
Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.
— Iggy Pop
You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
— Faye Dunaway
I just get onstage and sing. I don't think about how I'm going to do it - it's too complicated.
— Sarah Vaughan
As soon as my foot is in the light onstage, I am home. It is what I love to do. It is what I have always loved to do.
— Polly Bergen
I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.
— Patricia Heaton
Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world.
— Britney Spears
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.
— Stephanie Mills
I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect.
— Amy Lee
In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage.
— Lil' Mama
I love being onstage.
— Stephen Colbert
I'm a big fan of the young 1950s Elvis when he would just go onstage and control the whole environment.
— Bruno Mars
You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage ... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
— Robert Smith
Offstage I worry and sweat. Onstage I am calm as a windless winter night.
— Patrick Rothfuss
While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.
— Robin Trower
Onstage, I don't want to be thinking about my outfit, I want to think about what I'm doing, so I'll try to dress as comfortably as possible.
— Miranda Lambert
There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.
— Annie Lennox
Me in my music and onstage - that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.
— Banks
One time I laughed so hard, I just had to go and change my pantyhose. I lost it. Lost it. At least it wasn't onstage.
— Anne Meara
I never used to speak to the audience at all. I never really knew what to say onstage.
— Justin Hayward
If you can't imagine female torch singers and Skrillex-style demon techno onstage at the same moment, you don't know Eurovision.
— Seamus Dever
Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.
— Robin Williams
I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
— Samantha Bee
When I'm onstage, I hope it looks like what I want to see - the lights, the pyro, the band.
— Nikki Sixx
To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.
— Carrie Underwood
My favorite comedians are basically themselves onstage.
— Andy Kindler
Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.
— Britney Spears