Quotes About Expression

There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.

Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.

You don't realize how much you miss it until you get back onstage and feel that buzz.

Girl bands still do just copy the way men move onstage. To me, that is so backwards, so un-radical.

To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing.

It fascinated me, these kids who would sit in their living room or bedroom or kitchen and sing to the camera and act out the song fully as though they were onstage. Because a lot of musical theater kids... do that alone in your bedroom when you're a kid. But for someone to go and put that online? That's just so embarrassing!

Theatre comes alive when someone cross-dresses onstage.

You can be an incredible player, but when you get onstage, you've gotta be yourself, and you've gotta bring it, as we say, and that just means give 120 percent.

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.

I love getting to be onstage with so many great musicians.

I don't write anything. It's all done onstage, which is why I always tell younger comics that they just have to go do it. You have to get up, talk, and take a thought or a word and just expound, and you find it in there. I don't sit down and write.

I'm someone who is quite shy, and onstage I'm quite... extrovert.

I just like to play and I'm always ready to be back onstage.

I just do my thing onstage - it's just what happens. No one, even if they're into the band, can know it's as natural and real as anything can be. I don't think about it.

I always just felt more comfortable just kind of hiding behind a character than being myself onstage.

When you know you have a good song, when you're onstage, even if it's just a weird, basic energy, you know your song is good.

I'm generally a fairly shy, withheld person. But when I get onstage, I get a bit mad.

A lot of people get a high from being onstage. I found ways to enjoy it. But I get it from being in the studio.

I might come across like kind of a show-off onstage and stuff, but I like collaborating with people.

Whether I'm performing in a club or onstage as Erika Jayne, whether I'm making records, whether I'm doing TV, I've got to entertain, and I have to take people away from their space and bring them into mine.

Musicians want to be heard. So I'm not hiding. But I do like to leave it there onstage and be myself, in that sense. Because some people carry it with them.

I will say that, I, being a Jew, experience unease before I go onstage; and after I go onstage, and in general. But luckily the forty-five minutes to an hour that I'm onstage I usually forget everything else and I just press play.

To be able to be at the level that I perform onstage, I have to embody everything I've made my music about. Which is me.

I think I'm a dancer in terms of what I do onstage.