Roger Bart Quotes

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

I think I'm getting more and more experience playing on big stages, and I think that's going to help me with everything.

Performing live was something that I had to really work at.

I discovered that I love being on stage in high school.

I've realized that I can do performances.

There's just something about being on stage and being with the people that, once that camera turns on, you find the strength to keep it cool, look good, act like you're not cold, act like you ain't nervous, act like you aren't scared. I think that comes with confidence and practice.

I've done a lot of stage in my life, but I never had to dominate a stage for three hours.

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 know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.

I started off doing theater as a kid, and I always played a character. I hid behind the script and was told where to go. But to actually perform as yourself is very difficult. I didn't used to enjoy it, but now I do.

I grew up singing, and I played on Broadway to thousands of people, you know what I mean?

It is important for an actor to learn how to face a live audience.

I'm still finding my feet in many ways as a performer. I'm not an extrovert, and certainly the attention isn't what drew me to it, and I find that quite jarring at times. I used to stress a lot about shows and get palpitations before shows, but eventually you learn to love it, and it is a thrill.

I've really improved, I think, as far as just being able to get up onstage with my guitar and sing.

I wasn't comfortable on stage for years. It was good - 18 shows. I want to do it again.

I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.

Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

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

I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.

You have to open up on stage.

I really love live performing!

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.