Quotes About Expression

I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.

Stage shows help you meet the audiences face-to-face.

I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.

I think architecture should be a stage, not something too material - more of an environment, not a product.

I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

I'm not a natural performer: I have a natural stage fright.

I have stage fright really badly.

I've never had stage fright, that would mean you were paralyzed like a rabbit in headlights and you wouldn't be able to speak or move.

I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.

I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there's - the digital work is so interesting now. It's come to that. I have had many different stages of photography - there are many different ways to take photos. But I feel now I'm in that stage of my life where I use the camera, you know, in that way.

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.

I would say, maybe from five years on, I sang on stages constantly. That's what I call my natural habitat: It's a place where I feel most like myself and the most confident, the most excited.

Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

Shows are my saving grace. In between actual jobs, the only thing that keeps me sane is the knowledge that I can go up on stages.

One reason Cassavetes is a hero to me is that his movies grew with him; they reflected the stages of his life. He made movies about where he was at that time. That's what I want to do with my films.

The image, like the voice, came in stages. I never sat down with anyone and said, 'Let's design an image.'

Theatres, stages are dangerous places.

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

Lady Gaga is not saying anything new, she's just quoting something that's already been said, and staging it. It rarely seems sincere. That's why I always try to say something authentic.

It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a song and it becomes stagnant or something that they're no longer interested in playing, and they leave it alone.

There is something that feels stagnant about having things you don't use or wear. But shoes are my thing. Shoes and scarves, I'm a big fan of the scarf.

I feel like animation's stagnant. There's not much that's trying to push the artform, and so, for me, I'm way too critical about it.