Stage Identity Quotes

I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.

Bitty was a nickname. When I became an actress I kept it. It's the only thing that went with Schram!

My last name's kind of interesting - Farmer. I don't really think it's interesting for the stage. I think Lynne kind of had a better ring to it.

I love to play. When I'm off, I feel a little lost - like, shouldn't I be on stage somewhere?

I adopted this feeling that the stage is my home, so just keep my coat on and not wear anything else.

I'm nothing without a band. I always feel like I'm part of the road crew until I'm on stage.

I'm a drag artist, and we put so much effort into creating characters, so the easiest way to show us respect is to call us by the name we gave ourselves and refer to the gender we have chosen to be on stage.

Ike's problem was that he was a musician that always wanted to be a star; and was a star, locally, but never internationally... so he then changed the name to Ike and changed my name to Tina because if I ran away, Tina was his name. It was patented as you call it.

I don't even know if I exist offstage.

There was a little of this, 'Oh, you're such a sweet girl!' That's a wonderful thing to have in life; I don't mind it at all for life. But I remember, the first role I was ever cast in as a not-so-sweet-girl, I was so happy.

The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.

I am only interested in being famous for my dancing. For me, the concept of the sacred monster is only about the stage - it is not about image.

Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.

What is portrayed on stage and in my music videos is different from my everyday lifestyle. But I want to people to see me as CL on stage and in my music.

I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.