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Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
'You Can't Take It With You' has eighteen people onstage at one point. Musicals entail a larger collaboration, and I love that.
I couldn't be touring unless my husband was on the road with me, taking care of our son while I'm onstage and doing interviews.
Thirty minutes onstage for me is literally a full day's work. So I make sure I eat right and I make sure I keep my energy high.
You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.
Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.
I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.
From day one, we always admired male R&B groups. They would go onstage with no shirt on and baggy jeans, and girls would scream.
I used to be more involved with every aspect of everything onstage. I'm way more relaxed now. It feels like anything can happen.
I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.
If you can't imagine female torch singers and Skrillex-style demon techno onstage at the same moment, you don't know Eurovision.
I don't care about the gold records and all of that stuff. I care about what we do onstage, and the joy that we bring to people.
When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.
Being onstage and communicating with an audience was part of my life since I was very little, but I was never pushed into singing.
There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.
What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.
This accident, or incident, happened in the most secure place I could have felt I was in: Walking onstage with my guitar, you know?
I was onstage singing with Luke Bryan, and he started singing a song that we hadn't rehearsed. Both Luke and myself just winged it.
I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable, which I think is sort of clear.
I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there.
Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.
Whatever I talk about onstage is just my story. My fan base is broad... We all have the same mom; it's just that ours has an accent.
You can do stuff onstage that you can't do offstage. You can be angry as hell and enraged and get away with it onstage, but not off.
I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.
When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like.
I'm a social person, and I'm used to working as a band member. I like that. I like being a part of a family onstage and on the road.
I actually got to go back to where I was born and perform there. I just brought my mom up onstage and was like, 'Look, here we are.'
I'm really fond of strength onstage and I'm not a small person. I'm 5'9'' and 190 lbs. - you can't really go on stage and be too shy.
It's not about me. It's about what I'm doing for kids. When I walk out onstage, there's 15,000 kids that, to me, represent potential.
However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.
I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.
I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.
I hate touring. But being onstage is one of the absolute best things I know in my life. And it is so good, it makes up for all the bad.
There's a picture of me as a little girl, and I'm waiting to go onstage, and I am biting the last bit of nail I have left on my finger.
The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.
So much about getting onstage is creating a connection with an audience that allows you to go different places and try different things.
Being a growing entertainer, period, you're going to always have struggles. I'm still trying to learn how to even perform right onstage.
I feel most free onstage. The audience, it's an abstraction. You don't really see anyone out there, but you feel the audience inside you.
When I finally decided that my only hope was to go to college, I took an acting class, and once I walked onstage, I just knew I was home.
If I walk out onstage and I get a warm, excited response, it makes me feel so confident and happy, and then it's so easy for me up there.
So did my time on Broadway after the Xscape tour doing 'Chicago'. Performing eight times a week put in the mindset of being onstage again.
There are a bunch of talented bands out there... So yeah, I often think, 'Why aren't these people onstage and why do I have a microphone?'
If you're an open channel when you're onstage, if you're just a vessel, things are going to come out that are stored away deep in your DNA.
Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.
I feel like I've paid a really heavy cost, a really heavy physical health cost, for the years of touring and how physical I've been onstage.
I'd like to sit down with Hillary Clinton onstage and ask her about Glass Steagall and all the big banks and her own campaign contributions.
Onstage, I don't want to be thinking about my outfit, I want to think about what I'm doing, so I'll try to dress as comfortably as possible.
I remember as a little kid watching the Opry from the nosebleeds, so to stand onstage and be invited to be a member was really, really cool.
I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?