“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.” FeelsCoursesBitsStageLike YouBonding Author:David Nail
“If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.” IfsFeelsDonePlayBitsStageLike YouWeightPassingPassingsInstanceTorchesStaggeringPassing It Author:Samuel West
“With stage, you feel completely like you're just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can't see anything because the lights are so bright and it's pitch black. That's ideal for me, that's when I have the best time.” FeelsI CanLightAbleBlackStageLike YouIdealsComing OutBubblesBest TimesPitch Black Author:Bill Nighy
“The job is the same - to attempt to make it sound like you've never said it before and as if it's just occurred to you. And that's the same whether you're on camera or whether you're on stage in a room full of people.” PeopleIfsSaidJobsSoundRoomsStageLike YouCameras Author:Bill Nighy
“You know, when you do standup there are certain requirements that you have to do like you have to go on stage and when you get introduced you have to say "Hey,how ya doin'? How are ya?" I couldn't do it. It was false.” KnowsCertainStageLike YouGoes OnHeyRequirements Author:Larry David
“Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.” WellsWinningCausesStageLike You Author:Lance Armstrong
“I feel like you have to make art because you have to make it. But the end result of it- that last stage- you have to show it to somebody else to hopefully get a rise or reaction out of them- [to see] if it’ll affect someone else.” IfsFeelsArtEndsShowsLastsResultsStageLike YouArt IsReactionsHopefullyEnd Results Author:Frank Iero
“Prince is the ultimate performer. Prince is that dude that's going to get on stage by himself, if he need to, but hold you in the palm of his hand. Like, you can't take your eyes off the man when he's on stage, and he could just be sitting there playing his guitar.” IfsMenNeedsHandsEyeStageHe ManLike YouSittingUltimateGuitarPerformersPalms Author:Ne-Yo
“I think what I loved in cinema - and what I mean by cinema is not just films, but proper, classical cinema - are the extraordinary moments that can occur on screen. At the same time, I do feel that cinema and theater feed each other. I feel like you can do close-up on stage and you can do something very bold and highly characterized - and, dare I say, theatrical - on camera. I think the cameras and the viewpoints shift depending on the intensity and integrity of your intention and focus on that.” ThinkingFeelsMeanMomentsFilmCan DoFocusStageLike YouIntegrityTheaterCamerasIntentionExtraordinaryDareScreensCinemaIntensityTheatricalViewpointsCan Do SomethingExtraordinary Moments Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“If I feel really authentically in my body, then everything seems to click. But, sometimes I can only get into that, if the atmosphere is already conducive to that with the sound and all that stuff. There are moments where, as a performer, you're on stage and you feel like you're exactly where you're meant to be in the universe. It's a rare and beautiful thing when it happens.” IfsFeelsI CanSometimesMomentsBodySeemsHappensBeautifulUniverseStuffSoundStageLike YouAtmosphereMeant To BePerformersBeautiful ThingsClicks Author:Ben Lee
“My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful.” GivingWellsWholePastBeautifulCertainOrderFeltStageLike YouDrinkStudiosWhole LifeHotelMy Past Author:Lauryn Hill
“If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go into the air, and then they go into somebody's body through their ears, so it's kind of like penetrating somebody. It's kind of like having sex with somebody - but, obviously, from a great distance.” IfsKindBodySongSexAirStageLike YouEarsDistanceHaving Sex Author:Jarvis Cocker
“When you see a movie, it's like you're attending a show of magic in which the magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat. You don't know how he did it, but a part of you is fascinated, or hypnotized, by what happened, another part of your brain says, "Oh, I want to do the same thing! I want to be that wielder of that magic. I want to be that magician on stage, and do the same thing to other people."” PeopleKnowsWantShowsBrainKnow HowHappenedMagicStageLike YouHatsFascinatedMagicianRabbitsAttending Author:Gaspar Noe
“I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can always tell what temperature a room is in a Hitchcock film because the people feel alive, they don't feel like they're just being filmed on a stage.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFilmRoomsAliveStageExampleMastersLike YouRealmsJust BeingTemperatureHitchcockSensational Author:Tilda Swinton
“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
“Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.” FeelsCitiesStageNew YorkLike YouExciting Author:Alan Rickman
“I feel like you can share as many jokes as you want to because no joke you do on Twitter is ever gonna be so big on Twitter, for the most part, that you can't say it on stage that same night.” WantFeelsBigsNightShareStageLike YouJokes Author:W. Kamau Bell
“Well, I am not always joking, sometimes I am serious. But some people always expect you to be funny. If you were like you are on stage, you would be obnoxious. With the jokes and the putdowns, I would need to take a break... juggle something.” PeopleIfsNeedsWellsSometimesWould BeBreakStageSeriousLike YouJokesObnoxious Author:Dom Irrera
“If they [the crowd at The Apollo Theater] don't like you, they will let you know. When you didn't have any talent, they would let you know about it -- and not kindly. There'd be things like "Get off the stage!" and certain expletives we won't say here. It was a rough audience.” IfsKnowsCertainAudienceStageTalentLike YouTheaterCrowdsRoughApolloExpletives Author:Don Alias
“It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.” LongStageLike YouGeniusLong TimeGet UpDiscouraged Author:Bill Hader
“I think that watching artists, soulful artists, they get into it. It's always the way I perform, so when I'm on stage I just try to get into it - I'm in my own world. That's the whole thing about the stage, it's like a sacred place. They're [the audience] watching into the different world, right, so it's like you see performers and they're in the same room, so it's a different vibe. Sometimes it's great, but I try to separate it, you know, I wanna separate it 'cos otherwise I feel naked. It just feels natural.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayFeelsTryingDifferentSometimesWholeArtistNaturalMy OwnRoomsAudienceStageLike YouSacredNakedPerformersDifferent WorldsSoulfulMy Own WorldSacred Places Author:Justin Nozuka
“I go around with my books so much and I love to perform on stage, to remind everybody that the lights are off, the phones are off, and for this hour, it's going to be like your mother reading to you. We're going to remember why we love stories. I think that gets lost in over-intellectualizing.” ThinkingBookStoriesLightRememberMotherReadingLostHoursStageLike YouPhonesLove Story Author:T.C. Boyle
“We think is happening in the brain, the way I like to think about it is, it's almost like, you're brain is going through all these stages of sleep and it's developing in children so fast that it's almost like you're shifting gears in a car. And at some point, you actually stall out a little bit, and that's kind of what happens during a night terror.” ThinkingWayKindChildrenLittlesHappensNightBitsSleepBrainStageCarLike YouLittle BitHappeningsTerrorDevelopingShiftingGearsNight Terrors Author:Shelby Harris
“I think my body makes itself tired so I don't have the energy to do anything else beforehand. I do jump around a lot on stage, so I guess my body's like, "You are tired now!" As soon as I get onstage the adrenaline takes over. It's a useful mechanism.” ThinkingBodyEnergyStageLike YouTiredOver ItMechanismAdrenaline Author:Martina Sorbara
“Sometimes I feel like when you're in the dressing room, and you're on stage in 10 minutes, you feel like your stomach is going to explode.” FeelsSometimesRoomsMinutesStageLike YouStomachDressingsDressing Rooms Author:Nick Valensi