Isabelle Huppert Quotes

Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.

There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!

You don't realize how much you miss it until you get back onstage and feel that buzz.

When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.

The adrenaline of performing on stage to a crowd - there's nothing like it.

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

Well, just coming off the stage and there's like 180,000 people out there and your adrenaline is going so high, and you're doing so much and it's hard to just put your head on the pillow and sleep because it just goes on and on, even after you're off the stage.

I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, I'll hit a brick wall and need to sleep.

I'm addicted to the adrenaline of performing, and I think when you're used to having that high, you look for it in other things.

When I'm on stage, all is right with the world.

Every time I get up and sing for people, I get such a high. I just want to do it again and again.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it's an incomparable experience.

And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.

I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.

Performing on stage is such a buzz. I've done stupid things such as jump off a building, but I'd never experienced adrenalin like I did on stage.

There's such an adrenaline rush for me on stage and having all these people look at you. There's an adrenaline rush from not having things written down, too.

Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, 'Garth, you're a lot calmer than I thought you were gonna be.' But when the members of the band give one another that handshake, and the lights go out, and the crowd goes up, then you're sliding into the elevator, man, your heart is just going bopbopbopbopbop.

I miss physically going out on stage and performing. That's the ultimate high.

I hate touring. But being onstage is one of the absolute best things I know in my life. And it is so good, it makes up for all the bad.

When I perform live, I'm doing a lot, but I kind of black out. I don't think about it too much.

Performing on stage is addictive. The adrenaline rush is exhilarating. When I stop touring for a couple weeks, I get antsy.

Obviously, Iron Maiden is on a way bigger scale to British Lion, but as a musician playing live, it's just the adrenaline rush of playing in front of an audience that gives you that rush.

I have never been more physically tired than after that first song of my first concert.

I experience a high on stage that I get nowhere else. I feel its like going to the gym so I won't lose my skills.

The thrill of standing on the stage and hearing the crowd, it's the greatest feeling in the world. It's a blessed feeling.