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I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.
When I was seven, my mom took my twin sister and me to a play. I remember being fascinated about life onstage.
A lot of people get a high from being onstage. I found ways to enjoy it. But I get it from being in the studio.
In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage.
I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.
When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.
While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.
I missed being onstage behind the microphone. After a while, it was hard to hear another voice singing my lyrics.
People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.
My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.
I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.
When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.
I don't socialize in drag anymore. If I'm in drag, I'm usually onstage or in the dressing room or in a car service.
I'm always making micro-adjustments onstage, listening to the audience, and what a crowd is like can be infectious.
When you're onstage in theater, if you mess up a line, there's no 'Cut! We'll get it again.' It's full steam ahead.
When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.
I would say just in general, in life, I'm more willing to be animated as a person, and so obviously onstage as well.
What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
If I go onstage, I want to give people everything they want and more. I'll wash their car for them on their way out.
I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!
I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.
The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.
As soon as my foot is in the light onstage, I am home. It is what I love to do. It is what I have always loved to do.
Whenever I go onstage or in front of a camera, I always want to pour my soul out because I know I have a lot to offer.
Playing onstage, I'm always aware of where the bathrooms are. When Crohn's hits, I have to run, or it won't be pretty.
We put so much of ourselves onstage and we work so hard, that I never get tired of people telling me 'you're awesome.'
On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.
I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.
I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?
You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.
I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.
There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.
To be able to be at the level that I perform onstage, I have to embody everything I've made my music about. Which is me.
A fantasy of mine is being pulled up onstage by one of my favorite bands and singing or playing an instrument with them.
I can't eat before I go onstage because I've learnt that burping on stage isn't a good thing. It's all about acid reflux.
I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.
For some reason, people don't want to see a girl onstage. Whether it's a girl or a guy, if you like the music, who cares?
My style offstage is so different from onstage. I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.
I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.
Entertaining and being onstage is such a rush; it's amazing... and I just hope that it can last, and last for a long time.
I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect.
I try to avoid gaining weight as much as possible because it hinders my performance onstage. Touring demands so much energy.
In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.
I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.
When you know you have a good song, when you're onstage, even if it's just a weird, basic energy, you know your song is good.
I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
Onstage, I channel my inner goddess. Everyday Jillian is definitely more low-key: jeans and a crop top with a sneaker or boot.