Rudolf Nureyev Quotes

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.'

We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

I do my best creating on stage.

There is nothing like being on stage.

I can't imagine my life without doing theater.

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

I'm an entertainer, period. But I'd probably have to say my passion is in singing. I'm willing to go broke singing.

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

I love dancing but acting is a passion.

When I'm talking or performing, I'm alive. That's why I work so much.

I would say, maybe from five years on, I sang on stages constantly. That's what I call my natural habitat: It's a place where I feel most like myself and the most confident, the most excited.

I pride myself on the energy I put on stage.

Go on stage and stomp my foot on stage and play my guitar and sing my guts out because I love to entertain people. That's what makes me happy.

I would do these performances around town at different places, and that's when I really fell in love with performing, and I knew this was something that stood me up and filled me in a way that nothing had and nothing could. I really just fell in love with it.

I'll always go back to the stage.

Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.

I think I always enjoyed the energy of a crowd, of being onstage. It started when I was even younger doing public speaking at school and just kept going from there.

I have always loved performing.

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

Every time I see a live performance of something, I'm like, 'I want to be doing that!'

I feel energized walking off stage.

I love playing live now more than ever. I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young.

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.