The Weeknd Quotes

I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

People want performers, personality and drama, and you got that in the .

I think theater ought to be theatrical.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

I love to entertain an audience.

You don't go see Primus to see what kind of new clothing I'm wearing or what my new hairdo is. You come to see Primus for the musical experience and the visual experience. I think, anyways. Maybe I'm wrong!

I love to perform live.

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

I love playing shows. That's the time I have to really share what I am about.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

There's a romance and power to live theater.

I love wrestling, and I love telling a story to the audience.

It's always been about the live show for us. We're having Halloween onstage every night.

When I'm performing for 4,000, 5,000 people, it's a show. It's a rock n' roll concert.

We enjoy playing small shows, big shows, whatever. There's the energy of the visual production, and all that stuff starts to happen, so when you see it come to life, it's pretty exciting.

I try and put on a show for the crowd and make sure they enjoy it.

I love working in theater because it's such a challenge to have the audience right there in front of you. If you mess up, you have to figure it out and keep going. There's no take two! I do hope to return to the stage someday. I really love to sing.