Jerry Seinfeld Quotes

I feel energized walking off stage.

When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd... was just amazing.

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

I really can't tell you the feeling I feel, like, being on stage: it's such a high; it's like running a marathon. You just can't get that feeling anywhere else.

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

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

I first started acting in primary school, just doing little plays. And from the moment I began, something just went 'click' inside me. Suddenly I wasn't shy anymore. Instead I felt confident and happy. I can remember the enormous sense of relief it gave me. I loved the feeling of making people laugh.

You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

I have great emotion every time I go on stage. Nothing in life gives me the same satisfaction that my profession gives me.

The thrill of performing - that's something that hasn't changed for me. That simultaneous joy of creating something and sharing it with an audience - it's the same now as it was then, when it was just my cousins' birthday party.

Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.

People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.

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

You have to pay attention to the moments when you've felt on top on the world. I remember the first time I was on stage, I was doing 'West Side Story,' I was 17 and this woman was crying because she liked what I was doing so much.

Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.

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

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

I really - I just wanna sing. And I wanna show people that I can sing.

When you've got that performing bug, there's no way that you can tear it out. It's there. When you go out on stage, and that first wave of applause comes, you just go, 'Wow.'

I played my first show when I was 17, and that was a big moment. I realized it was something I could keep doing.

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 was 14 and went on the stage for the first time, it stimulated me so much that I was convinced that I didn't want to do anything else.

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.