Angela Lansbury Quotes

What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.

I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

Performing is my passion. Being onstage is at once exhilarating, beguiling, and fulfilling. But it's hard.

I feel rejuvenated every time I perform on stage.

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it's a bad rainy day, or it's too humid. We all complain about stuff. But... how do I put this poetically? Once it's the roar of the crowd and the smell of the greasepaint, forget it. Once the adrenaline kicks in and your chest expands, you forget about all that.

I love to perform. But I don't like the traveling.

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

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world.

I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do it.

I love performing in front of a live audience and just stepping out in front of ruddy Royal Albert Hall is just something, I can't describe it.

One of my favourite things to do is compete for a crowd. It's just really fun for me.

My show mode is that the dressing room is like going into the cockpit. Going down the stairs is like going on the runway, and once we begin performing, it's flight time. I'm just floatin' on that stage.

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

I go out there to steal the show every night.

The best feeling I get is when I walk on stage.

I want to know that I'm gonna knock 'em dead every night.

I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem. I'm a closeted pop star.

That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me.

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.

As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.