Scott Hall Quotes

When I'm on stage I become a different beast.

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

I start the show, and the armour goes on, and the showman comes out. When the show is finished, that comes off, and I become soft centred again.

Nothing is real until you walk out on stage.

I've always been kind of a - you know, I have my moments, where I can be Tommy, and then I flip a switch; when you're on stage, you turn into this other personality.

I've never been uncomfortable being a frontman.

My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.

You know how Beyonce has Sasha Fierce? That's how I am. When I go out onstage, I become a different person.

When I go on stage and perform, I'm an extreme version of myself.

I definitely have a stage persona. I don't walk around scowling at people too often.

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.'

I play every show like it's my last. Fortunately, that's never turned out to be the case.

You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he's showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it's confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn't feel like he deserves to be there.

I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem. I'm a closeted pop star.

I come from a big, loud family, and I'm the quieter one. Performing is something I have to switch on. I've heard I get real sassy onstage, which I'm not in real life! It's fun to be that person for an hour a night.

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 love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

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.

I feel like I own the stage.

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

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

Being on stage makes me come to life. When all eyes are on you, they're watching every move you make.

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.

I think every film actor secretly wants to be a rock star as well; just that part of the job which requires the extrovert in you. Even if you've become an actor because it's your way of hiding in plain sight, there's still part of you which has that craving.