Quotes About Expression

Singing and dancing will never grow old for me - I'd like to do that until I'm... actually, I think I'd like to drop dead onstage. I think that'd be just great.

There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage.

I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Me in my music and onstage - that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.

I felt like onstage I have to have a certain amount of anonymity, like, personal anonymity, to feel loose and free. When you're up there with people who've known you for a decade, and you make a bad joke and you hear the cackling behind the drums, it's hard to get lost in the moment.

Onstage is the one time in my day that I can let it all out.

I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.

I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.

'You Can't Take It With You' has eighteen people onstage at one point. Musicals entail a larger collaboration, and I love that.

I just get onstage and sing. I don't think about how I'm going to do it - it's too complicated.

The first time I was onstage, I felt like the audience was breathing with me. I don't know if I was good or not; I just knew I was having a ball, and for the first time, I felt I belonged somewhere.

The more comfortable I got onstage, the more comfortable I got expressing myself in a physical manner. And it almost shocked people - 'Oh, is there something happening?'

I love being onstage, whether it's dancing or acting - there's just something about being onstage.

These guys were always saying, 'The minute you get onstage, it's great, no matter how much you're hurting.' But that didn't work for me. There were some nights I did not want to get out there.

I feel powerful when I'm onstage talking to an audience. I like communicating; it feels like my calling in the world. Knowing what you're meant to be doing with your life is pretty bloody powerful.

I would be onstage all the time if I could.

You know how Beyonce has Sasha Fierce? That's how I am. When I go out onstage, I become a different person.

I absolutely loved improv! I felt very much at home being onstage. It freed me to be all sorts of people other than myself. It was an escape from myself, if you will. I still love that creative freedom of improv and making people laugh.

I didn't know if I could be funny on stage or write a joke. But I saw that there are no rules. If you're funny offstage, you can figure out a way to be funny onstage.

I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.

You can do stuff onstage that you can't do offstage. You can be angry as hell and enraged and get away with it onstage, but not off.

It's not onstage as often anymore, but whenever I got anxious, I used to talk a lot more, and I wouldn't even know what I was saying... it was so bad. If I just talk myself through something, even if it's just talking about nothing, it usually gets me out of it.

There's something about being onstage, man. No matter what age I am or where I'm going, theater will constantly be the thing that accepts me and embraces me.