I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.
When I was younger, I was a complete tomboy. Then in college I started emerging out of the tomboy stage and dressing differently.
On a global stage, I have respect in the goalkeeping world.
I don't really unwind after a performance. I'm still pumped up and just want to get back on stage.
We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.
With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.
I'm most comfortable on stage.
I love to go on stage and sing.
I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.
I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.
[Social Security ] is not in crisis at this stage. Leave Social Security alone. We have a lot of other places we can look that is in crisis. But Social Security is not.
I just liked the feeling of being on stage.
I grew up on that stage. I learned almost everything I know there.
And if I let myself down, appear on stage when I'm not looking my best, it's not fun for me. I just beat myself up about it.
I questioned everything about music. I think it's a strange thing standing on a stage and making music. I just questioned it always: What's music? What's the meaning of it?
I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.
The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny.
I never know what I'm going to say as I walk up to the microphone. I try to be in the moment. I try to go deeper into myself. I discover things on stage that I don't discover off stage about me.
I have been nervous before, but I have never had stage fright.
I loved the fact that I could get on stage and be in control.
That is what I liked about being on stage. I was comfortable there, and I could be myself with confidence.
I don't know which I like best. I love the applause on the stage. But pictures are so fascinating - you reach many millions through them. And you make more money too.
My wife totally backs the way I am on stage; that's one of the amazing things about her. I have 120 per cent respect for her when I'm on stage, so there are definitely certain things I would never do.
No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.
Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on... mass murderers.
