The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.
The reason I can do what I do on stage is because I couldn't fake it.
I'm at best on stage. It's one of the only places where I actually can feel like a million bucks.
Rushdie is a hostage.
I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image.
The world is my stage. I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!
If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage.
When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.
It's fun to be loose. Just like on stage, all of your great ideas come from looseness.
It is very rewarding to walk out on stage, feeling the love and reception.
Being on stage is what I enjoy.
I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.
Over the course of a day, you get to get a feel for where you're playing, so when you get out on stage, you already feel like you've had a bit of a bonding experience with them.
Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage
I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.
The laugh-count is right up there with being diagnosed with late-stage cancer.
Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.
But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.
It's just that you don't have to bring it to every stage. You can do a fundraiser for people that you support. You don't necessarily have to talk about one thing or another when you're on your own.
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.
I'm at the stage in my life that real-estate apps turn me on.
My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.
I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.
I always wear my black watch on my left wrist so I know I'm on stage on time.
And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.
