Leah LaBelle Quotes

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

The excitement of stepping onto a stage - there's nothing quite like it.

As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

The excitement does not change. After 40 years in the business, I still find the show to be a magical moment - the performance anxiety, the litmus test.

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.

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.

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

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

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 need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.

You can have a bad day, but as soon as you set foot on that stage it's joyous.

I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

I've been on stage since I was eight.

As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

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

Certainly, being on stage is a rush.

If I had my way, I'd always be onstage. But I won't always be able to be onstage.

Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.

More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't.