Ann-Margret Quotes

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

I experience a high on stage that I get nowhere else. I feel its like going to the gym so I won't lose my skills.

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.'

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.

The best shows I play, I almost don't even remember off the stage.

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 definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

I don't really unwind after a performance. I'm still pumped up and just want to get back on stage.

When I'm on stage, all is right with the world.

Certainly, being on stage is a rush.

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

Entertaining and being onstage is such a rush; it's amazing... and I just hope that it can last, and last for a long time.

The excitement does not change. After 40 years in the business, I still find the show to be a magical moment - the performance anxiety, the litmus test.

When I get up there, maybe I'm nervous for the first song, but then I get into it. It's a lot of fun to stand up there. I always enjoy the moment when I'm actually standing on stage. When I'm done, I'm like, 'Oh, I want to play one more song.'

When you get the rush of live performing, it's hard to give that up.

Going onstage - that's my joy. You know like when you're in school and you're just waiting for the bell to go off so you can leave the class and go and play outside? That's me in life.

When you have had the high of being on stage, especially in a band like ourselves, I can't help but search for that buzz.

The adrenaline of performing live in front of an audience is a feeling that's hard to replicate.

A lot of people get a high from being onstage. I found ways to enjoy it. But I get it from being in the studio.

I know what to expect from the crowd and enjoy playing in front of the big crowds.

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

When you're on stage, you're in control. No one can get to you.

When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.

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