I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.

Harlem is a stage. It’s like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk and talk.

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, ‘I can really sing.’

I’ve always said that racing in New York is performing on the big stage.

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.

How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.

I could never do stand-up because it’s that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

All your travelling is together, you eat together, you’re on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.

You leave part of yourself on every stage you’re on. How could you not live in the air somehow?

I’m not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.

I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.

I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my...

The crossover wasn’t happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there’s just a lot of crossover.

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.

I’ve got to be comfortable when I’m on stage.

The next innovation, Sensavision, will be like a Walkman attached to your forehead. You won’t actually have your head wired because infrared wires will send signals to you. In 2007 Mick Jagger will be on...

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of ‘Stagefright Sympathy Sickness’.

No matter how you were taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher’s smiling face to the stage. You got to put on that smile.

Something magic happens when I get to a club or get on stage.

I never stop working when I’m on stage, and that’s my fitness.

Certainly, being on stage is a rush.

The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are real!

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.

I want to be back on Broadway one day. That’s a dream of mine. There’s nothing like live theater, and I think it’s so important for me to be able to be on stage with...

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

The truth is, unlike TV and film cameras, the theater stage doesn’t add 10 pounds.

I knew I wanted to be a performer, but I didn’t know I would specifically be in film. I actually never thought I would be in film. I always envisioned being on the stage.

if somebody doesn’t have any talent, get off the stage! you’re wasting my time.

The stage calls my name.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Susan Boyle having a meltdown is not controversial. It’s human for a 48-year-old recluse to get a little wigged out when she finds herself on the world stage overnight.

To be honest, I don’t know really what I do on stage.

As soon as you get off stage, that’s the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.

For years I used to try to straighten my hair, but I’ve reached a stage where I think, ‘I’ve got red curly hair, and it’s actually really great.’

The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together.

Put me on stage and I’m happy.

For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.

If you read Shakespeare’s stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.

When I am not on the stage, it is always very difficult for the public to find me! I am a private person who does not always want to be in the spotlight!

I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.

It’s the only time that I’m ever nervous on stage, is when we’re doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can’t fix it.

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that… and all the glory of it.

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.