It`s a way to exteriorize all my shit. To scream and cry and laugh on-screen, it`s almost like black magic. You can do anything. I`m a dreamer, so that`s a good job for me. Onstage is the only place I can fully express myself.
Eva Green
[on being private about her life] What did you expect? I`m human; I feel what anybody else feels. 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. I`m not intensely private...
Annie Lennox
I love the chemistry that can be created onstage between the actors and the audience. It`s molecular even, the energies that can go back and forth. I started in theater. and when I first went into movies I felt that my energy was going to blow out the cam...
Glenn Close
Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It`s the real performers on the street who can hold people`s attention and keep them from walking away.
Andy Kaufman
I started as a dancer when I was a little kid. I realized I didn`t like dancing as much as being onstage and having people clap for me. That`s how I segued into acting, the shortened version.
Amber Benson
Some asshole kept throwing oranges and other fruit at me while I was onstage. Fucker had an arm like a major league pitcher... --About one of his concerts.
Eminem
I`m always looking around for another play, but only for a short run. I did "Frankie and Johnnie in the Claire de Lune" onstage with Edie Falco for six months, and it was very hard. Once you get past 14 weeks, I go crazy.
Stanley Tucci
The only thing I can compare the feeling of going onstage to is the fear you feel before going into a burning building. Once you go in there, the fear goes away and you`re operating on adrenaline. And when it`s over, if you`ve done well, it`s something yo...
Steve Buscemi
[As he ties his shoe onstage] "It`s very difficult to tie one shoe with the same tension as the other one, because if one should be a little tighter than the other, the show`s gonna suck. I`m a man of symmetry."
John Mayer
You can think of a lot of ways that would be wholly inappropriate, since they play in Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and London and Tokyo and so on. I didn`t want to ask them to wear boots onstage.
B. Michael Quale
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.
Clifford Burton
When she got onstage she was just a different kid. She was so confident and she looked so happy, and we were like, `Who is that?` After that, there was no stopping her -- she was obsessed.
Tina Knowles
When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.
Reba McEntire
Tony Quinn would pick me up and shake me. I`d see his thumbs coming out. I don`t think anybody ever should be hurt onstage. It`s not art, it`s crap!
Uta Hagen
To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.
Melissa Etheridge
There is a bit of acting involved when you get in front of a camera for a video. Even when you perform onstage, you`re putting on a show.
Aaliyah Haughton
The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I`ve gotta rest it for a night. So it`s the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.
Bob Seger
Onstage I`m the happiest person in the world.
Britney Spears
