Stephen Costello Quotes

Performing is an exchange of a lot of energy and it can wipe you out.

Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time.

The thing about ballet that I never knew about is that it's one of the most excruciating sports that I've ever been a part of. I say sports because they train constantly, every single day.

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.

But anyone who's done a musical knows; whether you're dancing or not, physically it's the most difficult thing you can do.

I really didn't realise until I got back the work that goes into a performance. You're like an athlete - if you haven't been practising things tighten up. I had to do a lot of practice work, but I got through it. Even when I was 21 I would have a 40-minute nap on the day of a show, and I will still do that.

A fight scene with a crazy can be quite physical. You don't feel it while you're acting, but each day you go, that hurts.

Being on stage a lot is quite physical.

Even when you're being safe, eight hours of choreography makes you look like you've been through a war. It's hard. It's like playing hockey for eight hours.

On stage, you have to hype yourself for two hours. It takes up a lot of energy, leaving me totally exhausted.

I never imagined I would be in colourful costumes and dance!

I would do musicals in high school where there was dancing, and I would sing my verse, and then they would choreograph it so when I would take an eight-count to back up to the back of the stage while the other dancers covered me up because my body was totally... I was always in newborn-deer mode.

Although he loved performing live, and was great at it - Jeff was as solid on stage, as he was in the studio - performing for two hours at a stretch really took a physical toll. It was very hard on him.

My sister was in ballet growing up. I spent almost the entirety of 7 through 12 backstage at Lincoln Center, just running around, waiting for 'The Nutcracker' to end.

When I was dressed as a clown in all that make-up I used to shed pounds every night and got agonising kidney stones because I was sweating so much.

We run around onstage constantly for about an hour and 45 minutes, and we know what that can do. You just feel great at the end of the night and when you wake up in the morning.

I just was never into performing. It's just hard work. It's hard work.

I would love to do a musical. Put that in the universe! A rom-com musical!

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.

The players have to understand how it feels to be fatigued and then go again.

Acting in a scene is easy.

As a 17-year-old, I remember positively dreading dance sequences. I would come to shoots, quaking with nervousness at the idea of making other artistes do retakes due to my mistakes.

I was crazy into performing when I was younger. I was obsessed with the craft of acting, and theatre, and stage. You know the term 'theatre geek?' I am the extreme theatre geek.

It isn't easy to create a dance show, and it's different from choreographing for films... You need a lot of stamina and practice.

Just one night at a show in New York, I literally passed out and fell off the stage.