“I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.” PeopleThinkingShouldLaughingStageStupidComfortableStandingStupid ThingsVery Stupid Author:Joaquin Phoenix
“People may know me from films, but theater is my first love. I did about 35 plays before I even landed my first screen role. I'm very comfortable on stage, and theater is not something you can just wing.” PeopleKnowsFirstsMayPlayFilmRolesStageComfortableTheaterWingsScreensKnow MeFirst Love Author:Sanaa Lathan
“I wasn't comfortable on stage for years. It was good - 18 shows. I want to do it again.” WantYearsShowsStageComfortable Author:Ester Dean
“I never experienced getting nervous on stage. I think I was most comfortable there.” ThinkingStageComfortableNervous Author:Misty Copeland
“As you get older, as a comedian, and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.” LongSilenceAudienceLaughingStageHugeComfortableJokesReactionsComedianCherish Author:Patton Oswalt
“No matter where you are - whether you just won the lottery, or met the person of your dreams, or you're on stage and people are being supportive - whatever it is, you're still you. And whatever work you've done to be comfortable with yourself, you know, you're not really going to advance beyond that point unless you put in that work. There's no magic fix.” PeopleKnowsPersonsStillsMatterDoneDreamMagicStageMetsComfortableYour DreamsWhere You AreSupportiveLotteryWhatever Works Author:Michelle Chamuel
“People say to me, you have not got stage fright. And if I haven't got stage fright, then I'm going to be comfortable within myself, and then something - I've always been that way and so I'm fighting to get away from that fear.” PeopleIfsWayFightingStageHavensComfortableGet AwayFrightStage Fright Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.” FeelsChildrenHomeStageGrewComfortableGrew UpTeenager Author:Tammy Blanchard
“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant time. It is true that you are quietly shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front seat as spectator, and if you have really played your part you are more content to sit down and watch.” IfsBelieveAgeGivenWatchesStageFrontsComfortableDown AndAgingOld AgePleasantSeatsBelieve In MeSpectators Author:Jane Ellen Harrison
“I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.” PeopleKnowsFeelsStageFrontsComfortableTheaterActresses Author:Anne Hathaway
“But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.” IfsI CanHappensFeltCan DoStageDogComfortableGood TimesScrewsHaving A Good TimeScrew UpsTurf Author:Keith Richards
“I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a play. In film, there's always a certain sense of control, of holding back. The stage is different ; there's more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.” DifferentPlayFilmCertainStageDemandComfortableConcernedHolding Back Author:Al Pacino
“Film has always been hard for me, I'm basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.” HardFilmFeltStageFrontsComfortableCamerasActresses Author:Blythe Danner
“I prefer the band aspect of things. I feel comfortable. It feels good to look to my left and right and see three other people on stage with you that love music as much as you.” PeopleFeelsLooksThreeLeftStageBandComfortableAspectFeel GoodMusic LoveLeft And Right Author:Joe Jonas
“When I'm on stage, and when I'm comfortable or uncomfortable, I have sort of a knee-jerk reaction to try to make people laugh. It's my version of a handshake to show that I want to make a connection and to show what I'm truly like. It's kind of my statement like, "This is what I'm really like. I'd like you to love me."” PeopleWantTryingKindShowsLaughingStageLike YouComfortableConnectionsReactionsStatementsVersionsKneesUncomfortableJerkMaking People LaughHandshakeKnee Jerk Reactions Author:Jenny Slate
“If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.” IfsWorldWantEndsDoorsStageStudentsComfortableTrapsLectures Author:Paul Beatty
“That's the most comfortable place for me. In the beginning, yes, I was nervous going on stage. I was not a natural performer. I really had to acquire that skill.” NaturalStageSkillsComfortableNervousAcquirePerformers Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.” HomeRealitySchoolStageComfortableDay To DayDay LifeWartimeDay To Day Life Author:J. G. Ballard
“It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.” PeopleKnowsStillsFeelingsNightFeltStageStrangeComfortableBakers Author:LaToya Jackson
“When I go on stage I am just, I don't make any attempts to do anything more than just what makes me comfortable.” StageGoes OnComfortable Author:Teddy Pendergrass
“That is what I liked about being on stage. I was comfortable there, and I could be myself with confidence.” StageComfortable Author:Gloria Gaynor
“I've never quite felt totally comfortable up on stage. I've gotten more comfortable, but drinking wine is a crutch that gives me a little courage. It helps me lose a little bit of the self-consciousness and the awareness of how awkward it is standing on a stage with lights and a bunch of people looking at you while you sing love songs.” PeopleGivingLittlesSelfHelpingLightSongFeltBitsLosesConsciousnessStageAwarenessComfortableLittle BitStandingGive MeWineDrinkingBunchHelp MeAwkwardNever QuitSelf ConsciousnessCrutchesDrinking Wine Author:Matt Berninger
“I got cast in a school play and I fell in love with that. I felt comfortable on stage and found out it was a brilliant way of expressing myself and I was happy and I could do it.” WayPlaySchoolFoundFeltStageComfortableCastsBrilliantSchool Plays Author:Douglas Booth
“I think I am most comfortable when I am on stage. I feel free, like I can be or do anything and it feels like home.” ThinkingFeelsI CanHomeStageComfortable Author:Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer
“The stage is the place I feel comfortable - it's almost as if real life is where I feel most nervous. Conversations are a lot more nerve-wracking.” IfsFeelsRealLife IsStageConversationComfortableReal LifeNervousNerves Author:Florence Welch
“Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.” WayFeelsI CanLightStageComfortableStandingPerformingGood And Bad Author:Matt Berninger
“Be gentle and tolerant. Intimacy will grow, but will take time and cannot be rushed. If all goes well, soon you will become more familiar with each other, and handling will forge awkward fumbling and fondling into more satisfying and productive caresses and eventually into a comfortable working partnership. At this stage you will be ready to accompany your new camera into the world.” IfsWorldWellsGrowsStageReadyComfortablePhotographyCamerasFamiliarIntimacyGentleProductiveSatisfyingPartnershipAwkwardTake TimeAccompanyCaressFondlingWell Soon Author:Bill Jay
“Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.” StillsPlayMomentsDifficultTalkingAudienceStageListeningComfortableAwkwardness Author:Norah Jones
“I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and I preferred to be behind-the-scenes. I like the seclusion of composing.” KindPersonsBehindsStageSceneBandComfortableRealisedComposingBehind The ScenesAntisocialSeclusion Author:Cliff Martinez
“People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."” PeopleIfsAsksStageComfortableAsk MeFrightStage Fright Author:Adam Duritz
“The personal boundaries, I think for comedians they're a little bit different anyway, but I think people - feel free to do stuff - It's interesting with comedians because when we walk on stage, oftentimes we're talking about ourselves for an hour and we're talking about very intimate details, so after hearing us for an hour, a lot of people feel very comfortable with us because they feel like they know us and they're our friends because we just told them our innermost secrets and details of our lives for an hour. What they forget is we know absolutely nothing about the audience.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsLittlesDifferentStuffBitsHoursWalksForgetInterestingSecretTalkingAudienceOur LivesStageComfortableLittle BitDetailsHearingBoundariesComedianIntimateAbsolutely Nothing Author:Brad Williams
“I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.” UsedStageComfortableSinging Author:Paul McCartney
“My daughter [Ariana], she's a sweet, lovely girl, but she doesn't have the drive or the belief in herself. As it says in the film, I get touched up thinking about it, no one can give you a career. You have to have that inner drive. She wants it, but she doesn't know how to go for it, she's too shy. To see her perform and come on stage and feel comfortable, you know, she has talent - that was very touching, very moving, for me. She has a really beautiful sound and voice. She's a young girl still, 26, and innocent. She was kind of sheltered.” ThinkingKnowsWantGivingFeelsKindStillsBeautifulFilmMovingYoungGirlBeliefSoundVoiceCareersKnow HowStageTalentSweetComfortableDaughterLovelyInnocentTouchedShyMy DaughterTouchingSweet LoveReally BeautifulVery MovingLovely Girl Author:Robert Davi
“At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.” StageComfortableRoundsDirtyDryIronWarmthWrapsCloaksStaircases Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette