It’s a wonderful thing to have life and to look at all this creation and say thank you. I even say it on stage.

I prefer the competitive atmosphere of a classroom setting, like yoga or Pilates. That keeps me going. Although performing on stage is great exercise!

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it’s an opportunity to express the extreme.

To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn’t need...

It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so...

I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I’m very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did...

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

‘Evita’ obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

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.