“I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.” PeopleEnoughTurnsStarsMillionsMinutesRocksStageFrontsTvsThousandLuckyConcertsRock StarSpinal Tap Author:Mark Mothersbaugh
“I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.” PeopleCharacterAbleStageFrontsLike MeShy Author:Romeo Santos
“I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.” ThinkingMightStageFrontsCameras Author:Jeffrey Wright
“You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.” WantActingClassStageFrontsCamerasActing Classes Author:Nicholas Lea
“The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You have to have lots of run-throughs with theater because there are no second takes in front of a live audience.” LongRunningAudienceStageFrontsMonthsPeriodsTheaterGreat ThingsRehearsal Author:Sanaa Lathan
“I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.” KnowsYearsMadeHappensRunningFiveStageFrontsHappeningsRiversDryFive YearsSweatPouringMicrophones Author:Nickolas Ashford
“Stage presence is not something I spend a whole lot of time thinking about. On the one hand, I do, because I have, like, favorite front-people and I know what's excited me to see in a band. But I can't be David Yow [Jesus Lizard frontman] and still play guitar.” PeopleThinkingKnowsStillsI CanPlayWholeHandsJesusStageFrontsBandGuitarExcitedLizardsStage Presence Author:J. Robbins
“The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.” SometimesChoicesProcessRoomsNumbersAudienceStageFrontsEventsDeterminedExperimentsRehearsalChoices You Make Author:Ben Kingsley
“You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.” PeopleWorldFeelsFeelingsFourStageFrontsThousandIllThrowingGarlandsThrowing Up Author:Judy Garland
“Acting time is like flight time: You can work on a simulator, you can rehearse, but unless you're really in front of the camera or on a stage - that's when you really learn how to work it.” ActingStageFrontsCamerasFlightWorking It Author:John Kapelos
“My demon is hating to have to do a regular day job. Being up on stage really helps me forget I have a life like that - when I did have a life like that. I find complete contentment and happiness when I'm playing in front of an audience.” HelpingJobsHateForgetAudienceStageFrontsDemonHelp MeContentmentDay JobsRegular Days Author:Steve "Lips" Kudlow
“There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.” WorldWayTryingHumansEndsHardFeelingsPainWishHuman BeingsGriefGreaterStageFrontsCracksHuman ExperienceRise AboveComing To An EndStages Of GriefRise Above ItCelebrity Relationship Author:Jennifer Aniston
“I love acting. I love stage work, more than anything. It's just live. It's right there in front of you. If you make a mistake, they know it and you know it. I won't do anything where I feel like I'm just making a fool out of myself. By doing that, I'm able to rise to my highest potential.” IfsKnowsFeelsAbleActingMistakeStageFrontsFoolHighestJust Live Author:Mike Tyson
“I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.” PeopleLittlesPlayCharacterDealsLaughingStageFrontsTheater Book:Penny Candy Source: Penny Candy
“Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.” PeopleFeelsEnoughWholeStageFrontsBunch Author:Hugh Grant
“My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to supply me with any answers. Everyone was too busy dealing with things that were more important. I was pretty lost and invisible. And all of a sudden, this world opened up where I could get on stage and perform in front of my peers. People would listen to me and see me, and people would say, "That thing you created was important." And that was so validating and necessary at that specific moment.” PeopleWorldImportantMomentsFallLostAnswersFailingStageFrontsThis WorldPeriodsAdultsFalling In LoveBusyInvisiblePeersToo BusyListen To MeSpoken WordTime Periods Author:Sarah Kay
“The worst years of my life were the first two years I was doing standup. You're learning how to do, and you're going on stage in front of two drunks and people aren't laughing and you're broke. That's a really hard time in your life.” PeopleYearsFirstsTwoHardLaughingWorstStageFrontsBrokeHard TimesTwo Years Author:Bill Maher
“While thinking when sober, our success at reaching our goals by using the First Baltic Front troops, the Memel operation, it can't be disregarded, that the troops not only honorably accomplished their powerful strategic operation, but also an infusion of victory for the Soviet armed forces and an entrance into the final stages of the war.” ThinkingFirstsWarForceGoalPowerfulStageFrontsVictoryFinalsOperationsAccomplishedReachingSovietTroopsSoberStrategicEntrancesArmed ForcesDisregardedInfusion Author:Ivan Bagramyan
“Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.” PeopleMadeEnoughStageFrontsTelevisionFrightStage FrightLive Television Author:Bill Hader
“I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.” PeopleKidsImaginationRoomsStageFrontsMy FamilyActiveMaking MoneyPerformingLiving Room Author:Laura Bell Bundy
“I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.” StillsDifferentStoriesWantedSchoolCoursesAudienceStageFrontsTelevisionInvolvedHigh SchoolExcitingTheaterLuxuryGet BackBroadway Author:Dennis Haysbert
“I would never discredit anyone that is working their way up on a show like "American Idol." I think they work so hard overcoming all of the obstacles to get on the show in the first place and then every week they are judged in front of all of America... I give them complete credit for getting up on stage... I think they deserve all the success that they get.” ThinkingWayGivingFirstsHardShowsAmericaWeekStageFrontsDeserveOvercomingObstaclesCreditJudgedIdolsDiscreditAmerican Idol Author:Mandy Moore
“The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was never nervous, but the first time I got on stage, there were four people there and I vomited.” PeopleFirstsUsedFourStageFrontsFirst TimeNervousSkatesWeird Things Author:Albert Hammond, Jr.
“I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.” ChildrenWantedUsedMy OwnRoomsAudienceStageFrontsMy FamilyBallerina Author:Lucy Hawking
“Performing onstage is all about reacting in a grand way. You're playing an arena of seventeen or eighteen thousand people and it's your job to make sure the person at the back feels as cool as the person all the way in the front. Being on stage is a bit of a façade. You get to walk out there and be the coolest version of yourself that you could possibly have imagined and then you come off stage and you're just like everyone else.” PeopleWayFeelsPersonsJobsBitsWalksStageFrontsThousandVersionsPerformingArenaEighteenReactingSeventeen Author:Justin Timberlake
“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
“Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.” HumansHuman BeingsStageFrontsBad Things Author:Spike Lee
“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
“After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Only in this case, it's not flattery, but grand larceny: the intellectual theft of ideas that you and I recognize as our own. Speech delivery counts for little on the world stage unless you have convictions, and, yes, the vision to see beyond the front row seats.” WorldLittlesIdeasStatesFormNightLeadershipVisionCasesStageFrontsSpeechIntellectualUnionsConvictionSeatsAddressesImitationFlatteryTheftAdagesDeliveryLarceny Author:Ronald Reagan
“CBGB was a wild place, ... The first time I ever played there was in 1987, I think, with my hardcore band, Scream. And I remember the craziest [thing] about that club was you could be in front of the stage and it could be louder than any show you've ever been to in your life. But if you were towards the back of the club at the bar, you could sit and have a conversation with someone. It was the weirdest thing to me.” IfsThinkingFirstsShowsRememberStageFrontsBandConversationFirst TimeClubsBarsScreamHardcoreCraziestWild PlacesCbgb Author:Dave Grohl
“That's one of our biggest challenges is finding out how to do that. There are times when you have to scale back. You might be performing on a five-by-five stage in front of 12 people. That's an exaggeration but there are times when you have to turn the corner and do an acoustic set.” PeopleMightTurnsChallengesFiveStageFrontsFindingsCornersScalesPerformingExaggerationAcoustics Author:Alan Powell
“But basketball was always something I was good at, that I was passionate about. I just didn't have the confidence to play in front of people at the time, at that early age. Now, I feel like I'm ready to play in front of people and play on the big stage.” PeopleFeelsPlayBigsAgeStageFrontsReadyBasketballPassionate Author:Lil B
“There's no truth in acting, it's all a trick, because you go on stage in front of sets, you're on film - it's all a trick. I'm making it sound very - I really am demystifying it, but what I try to do, what I do, and I hope effectively, is to create a reality as if it is happening now, that you're fishing for words out of the air.” IfsTryingRealityFilmSoundActingAirStageFrontsGoes OnHappeningsTricksFishing Author:Anthony Hopkins
“Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my performance. I never had writers.” PeopleMadeStageFrontsPerformancesSaloons Author:Don Rickles
“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 have been doing this since I was nine years old. So whatever the role is, I am going to do the best I can do. The only thing I am concerned with is stepping on the stage in front of that camera and giving the best performance I know I can give, day in and day out as an actor.” KnowsGivingYearsHas BeensI CanActorsCan DoRolesStageFrontsConcernedPerformancesCamerasNineDo The BestNine YearsBest Performance Author:Darius McCrary
“Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment. Going up with an idea and fleshing it out over time on stage and in front of people until it becomes a full bit.” PeopleWritingIdeasMomentsHappensBitsComedyStageFrontsImprovisationComedy Writing Author:Marc Maron
“I don't know how to play the guitar, so having to be on stage in front of people doing something you don't really know how to do, it's terrifying.” PeopleKnowsPlayKnow HowStageFrontsGuitar Author:Rooney Mara
“I become exaggerated, and loud, and obnoxious, and full of the spirit of improvisation. That's one of the weird things about performing, I think that any performer will say the same thing when you're on stage in front of a crowd there's a certain moment when you kind of click into a trance-like state and you just kind of go with it. I love getting into that mode. It's transcendental.” ThinkingKindStatesMomentsSpiritCertainStageFrontsCrowdsLoudPerformingPerformersImprovisationClicksExaggeratedTranscendentalWeird ThingsObnoxiousTrance Author:Wayne White
“Sources say the Obama administration is in the 'final stages' of planning the closing of Guantanamo Bay. The way it's gonna work is, they're going to put a Radio Shack sign out front and let nature take its course.” WayCoursesStageFrontsSourceFinalsRadioPlanningAdministrationClosingShackGuantanamoGuantanamo Bay Author:Jimmy Fallon
“The camera course was a bit crap. But when I was in drama school, I wasn't interested. I wanted to be a stage actress. I was not interested in learning camera craft. But then you throw yourself in the deep end when you do get a job in front of the camera because you have absolutely no idea what you're doing, and it is a skill.” IdeasEndsWantedSchoolJobsCoursesBitsStageFrontsDramaSkillsCamerasActressesCraftsNo IdeaNot InterestedCrap Author:Phoebe Fox
“Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it's such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even though I love it and I really do it with humility. I don't have serfs getting me grapes after, or things like that.” PeoplePlayProcessStageFrontsHumilityUnusualGrapesUnhealthyBorderlineSerfs Author:Gavin Rossdale
“And you can't get away from a mirror if you stand in front of it all the time, right. But if you step away from it, you don't notice it any more. And that's what the stage is like for me. See, an image becomes meaningless in as much as it's always temporary.” IfsStepsStageFrontsMirrorsGet AwayTemporaryMeaningless Author:Neil Young
“I think after coming off of 'American Idol'... people kind of expect you to just be awesome all the time, and we're still learning. I had a lot of stage experience, but it was in a 200-seat theater, you know - it wasn't thousands of people in front of me.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindStillsStageFrontsTheaterSeatsIdolsAmerican Idol Author:Carrie Underwood
“I'm an actor and I like having attention. There's a reason I like being on stage and in front of the camera, and it's that interaction.” ReasonActorsAttentionStageFrontsCamerasInteraction Author:Tatiana Maslany
“When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.” IfsI CanMatterEnoughSufferingVoiceStageFrontsKingsSingingScaredNakedQueensIntimatePope Author:Andrea Bocelli
“And from the first moment that I ever walked on stage in front of a darkened auditorium with a couple of hundred people sitting there, I was never afraid, I was never fearful, I didn't suffer from stage fright, because I felt so safe on that stage. I wasn't Patrick Stewart, I wasn't in the environment that frightened me, I was pretending to be someone else, and I liked the other people I pretended to be. So I felt nothing but security for being on stage. And I think that's what drew me to this strange job of playing make-believe.” PeopleThinkingFirstsBelieveMomentsJobsSufferingFeltEnvironmentStageSecurityFrontsStrangeCoupleSafeHundredSittingFrightenedPretendingFearfulFrightMake BelieveNever FearStage FrightAuditoriumsPlaying Make BelievePretending To Be Someone Else Author:Patrick Stewart
“You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.” IfsI CanPainPurposeArtistCertainCan DoAudienceOur LivesStageDyingFrontsPerformancesDifficultyMirrorsYou Can Do ItI Can Do This Author:Marina Abramovic
“Keeping the cat front-and-center was definitely a smart choice, from Tim and the animation department. Mr. Whiskers got referred to more than we actually saw him on stage. Seeing him on screen, you just love him.” ChoicesSawsSeeingStageFrontsSmartCatScreensDepartmentAnimationWhiskersSmart Choices Author:John August
“You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in jeans and a guitar and looking as real as you can in front of 18,000 people. I mean, it's not normal!” PeopleWayMeanI CanRealStageFrontsGoes OnNormalGuitarGoing OutJeansPremises Author:David Bowie