Aaron Lazar Quotes

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.

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.

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.

When you're doing a one-man play, you maybe rehearse for a month, and then you're just doing it an hour or two a night.

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.

Every night, you fight for that standing ovation at the end of the night. And if you do something wrong, the domino effect is chaotic. And you must not allow yourself to make mistakes whatsoever. So in that case, theater, it's fascinating because of the discipline that you need.

Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world.

I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.

I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.

Nothing is real until you walk out on stage.

I'm not very good at being a performing monkey.

As much as we like to pretend we're just getting on stage and whatever, it's like, no, I practiced in front of the mirror my whole life.

To portray a singer who gets on stage at night, who is away from the limelight, is never an easy task.

Stand up is the most stressful, and hosting and presenting a show has its own stresses, because you've got an audience which you've got to entertain as well as an audience at home.

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

I think actually performing on stage when everyone's facing you and you're one person facing them, that is quite a lonely thing in a strange way. You have to be quite insular from everybody else, you've got thousands of people staring at you and you're just on your own.

My ideal setting is I walk from the streets, backstage, and straight onto the stage. Two minutes, and I am on the stage. That way, in my head I have gone from my world and then into a social setting with my friends.

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

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

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.