Onstage Performance Quotes

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.

For me, I feel most at home when I'm playing live.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

Most of my bits are long stream-of-consciousness- type things, and when I'm doing them onstage, other places to take the theme or idea will hit me, and I just go with it.

I'm too scared to perform onstage. I'm not very good with big crowds.

It's different playing in a studio than it is playing live, of course.

We're blessed to be at a level in my career where I can afford to take out a bus of my own and bring my whole family with me, so that's great, too. The boys are out with us all the time, and it's just great to be able to turn around onstage and see my wife back there behind me.

Makin' records is one art form and playin' live is another. It's like the difference between makin' a movie and doin' theatre.

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

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

Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.

In rock 'n' roll it's really about being as vulnerable as possible and giving them what they want. But onstage it's about pausing, about internal life, it's about internal triggers - that's one of the reasons I'm really challenged to do a play.

I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.

I try to avoid gaining weight as much as possible because it hinders my performance onstage. Touring demands so much energy.

But it's a Broadway show, so even if you're Christine in Phantom, you're still a princess. All female leads are princesses whether they're Disney princesses or not.

Working with film directors helps me grow, but nothing like the incremental jumps I make onstage.

I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.

I've been acting since I was six years old, but not professionally.

Michael Jackson is the most awesome person who ever walked onstage. He was just incredible.

I started out Ice skating with 'Holiday On Ice' and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

When I work onstage, I want to play roles that have real, deep theatricality, that aren't the sort you would easily see on television and in the movies.