I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.

I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people.

I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.

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

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

Me in my music and onstage - that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.

I love being onstage, whether it's dancing or acting - there's just something about being onstage.

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

Girl bands still do just copy the way men move onstage. To me, that is so backwards, so un-radical.

I really love being onstage - that's kind of home base - but I love the camera, too. I love it all.

I've really improved, I think, as far as just being able to get up onstage with my guitar and sing.

I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.

I might come across like kind of a show-off onstage and stuff, but I like collaborating with people.

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?

When you go onstage, the process of getting you from the dressing room to the stage is all about ego.

If you're onstage thinking about what you're going to eat when you get offstage, it's time to finish.

When I'm onstage, I have to have primer. Actually, the more primer, the less makeup I have to put on.

Mick Jagger is one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, just for how much he puts into it onstage.

When I'm onstage the joy is to try to be the best I can be, I'm there because I want it to be perfect.

I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'

When I started stand-up, the people I admired most were the people who were the most themselves onstage.

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.

I saw a concert with Nena singing '99 Red Balloons' on TV and I said, 'I will also go onstage and sing.'

I have four or five custom suits, including one that's velvet, and a gray one I wear onstage. It's wool.

I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.

Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.

Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.

I've never met an artist who was at a certain level of spirituality offstage and then lowered it onstage.

I think it would be fun to die onstage! Just drop dead in the middle of my show? That wouldn't be so bad.

I've felt emotions onstage that I never felt before; it has strengthened me as a person and as an artist.

People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

Performing is my passion. Being onstage is at once exhilarating, beguiling, and fulfilling. But it's hard.

We pray before everything - videos, onstage, TV shows. I think that has a lot to do with being successful.

It's definitely a high when you walk onstage and everybody starts applauding before you even say anything.

When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

You know how Beyonce has Sasha Fierce? That's how I am. When I go out onstage, I become a different person.

I'm a Brooklyn guy onstage, and I try to really feed my fans with the kind of material they expect from me.

I rely on poetry or literature to keep me centered before I go onstage because it reminds me to be present.

When I'm onstage, I'm not thinking about ideas. I'm not in my head at all. It's a more physical experience.

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

Cutoff flannel and a mullet. That's what I'm rolling with. If you see me onstage, that's what it's gonna be!

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

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