Catherine Mary Stewart Quotes

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.

As far as dancing was concerned, I always wanted to do it. To actually be performing was thrilling for me.

I love singing, and I used to perform quite a lot, but now, as a director, you just tend to watch other people perform and tell them what to do.

My dancers are the real stars.

I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.

I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!

I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now.

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 know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.

We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.

I've always loved Broadway, but I never thought I'd actually do it because I was never a full Broadway dancer. And I don't have a big, booming voice.

For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.

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.

In 'Malvolio,' the audience laugh at me, and I use that laughter to crack open the question as to why they are laughing.

I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.

The first show I did was 'The Nutcracker' ballet. I was one of the kids who comes out in the beginning.

My belief is that if I can achieve that level of entertainment by making the audience happy or sad or angry, then I have succeeded as an actor and have done my job. The profits and the fame as an actor will eventually surface, but first and foremost comes the work as an actor.

I always say, when you're onstage you can't please everybody. I'm sure there are people who may not take to what I do, but that's okay. Thank God the majority are in my corner.

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

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.