Harold MacMillan Quotes

I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.

Put me on stage and I'm happy.

I'm here to put on a show.

I was getting up on stage and taking a bow as soon as I could stand.

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.

The most remarkable moment is when you go out on the stage and you hear the applause of the audience!

I've never been an actor on Broadway, but it feels like you're on a stage when you play at Yankee Stadium. And that's the feeling I've always had.

I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.

Being on stage is what I enjoy.

At some shows, the set list gets changed while we are on stage. I know Ed thinks about the set very hard throughout the day in order to make the best show possible for the fans and for us.

When you're on stage, you gotta do it. People pay to see you, and they deserve to be entertained, and you should go out there and really give it your best shot. And that's quite a challenge.

There is nothing like going on a stage. You are in the saddle, and you've got to ride that horse, and there's nothing more thrilling and exhilarating.

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

I know what's funny, and I probably know the best way to deliver the joke. Whether it's walking out of a room, facing that way, facing this way. I just have a sense of that.

Every time I get in front of an audience, I do the best I can. I really don't look at it like, you know, 'This is gonna be this crowd, or that crowd.' If anything, I think about the demographics only because of what songs will entertain more than others.

I will do my best to entertain. That's what I am: an entertainer.

I love to entertain an audience.

Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.

In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.

The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live theater, blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.

There is nothing like being on stage.

I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.