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Onstage, I was never the ingenue. -- Kristen Johnston
Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world. -- Britney Spears
Onstage, I find absolutely nothing but exhilaration in not talking. -- Teller
Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject. -- Freddie Mercury
Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there. -- Christopher Walken
Onstage, I'm still wearing my fabulous, sheer dresses because I'm not that big. -- Sandra Bernhard
Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take. -- Anna Friel
I became a comedian because I didn't want to be bullied anymore. Onstage I was safe. -- Margaret Cho
Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it. -- Elaine Stritch
Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist. -- Iggy Pop
Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good. -- Jack White
Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home. Offstage, it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage. -- Elton John
Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of. -- Stephanie Mills
Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters. -- Blythe Danner
Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people. -- Julianne Nicholson
Onstage, even though you're here together with the other actor, face-to-face, playing out the scene, you also have that other ear pointed out toward the audience and how they're listening. That informs a lot. -- Uzo Aduba
Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing. -- Laurie Metcalf
Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had. -- Colin Mochrie
I meditate and pray before going onstage - it helps me focus. -- Harry Styles
I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show. -- Freddie Mercury
I knew from the second I stepped onstage. I was like, yep, this is what I want to do. -- Demi Lovato
I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen. -- Mariah Carey
People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you. -- Dave Chappelle
Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else. -- Sabrina Carpenter
The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage. -- Lorna Luft
Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way. -- Cliff Burton
I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time. -- Johnny Cash
I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper. -- Kenny Chesney
I always say, 'Hip-hop takes me everywhere.' It's crazy when I step onstage, and people might not speak much English, but they know every word to your songs. It's kind of freaky, but it's really cool. -- Eve
The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, 'You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.' -- Steven Wright
Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away. -- Andy Kaufman
I come from a big, loud family, and I'm the quieter one. Performing is something I have to switch on. I've heard I get real sassy onstage, which I'm not in real life! It's fun to be that person for an hour a night. -- Lorde
When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you. -- Drake
My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it. They basically recreate a music video onstage, and pyro cannons, LED video screens, background dancers, fireworks, costume changes, and wind machines are their tools. -- Seamus Dever
Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you? -- Orson Welles
I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind. -- Stephen Dillane
I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot onstage. On the other side of the pot was a little girl who had dark hair, and she and I were representing the Italians. And I thought: Is that what an Italian looked like? -- Al Pacino
When I played the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve, I got to bring Wiley, my 85-pound black lab. He's responsible for my favorite New Year's memory of all: At the end of the show, he ran onstage and then out across all the tables in the showroom, sending champagne glasses and gamblers flying. -- Elayne Boosler
Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don't know. I would just say with my first concert, my first tour, I didn't really talk onstage. I was like, 'Thank you, I love you guys,' or whatever. But now I've just kind of learned to work a crowd. -- Avril Lavigne
I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it. -- Adele
My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us. -- Dan Stevens
I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a microphone. No podium, no distance between me and the audience, and I just talk to people and get all excited and tell a lot of jokes, and sing some songs, and read from my work and remind people how powerful they are and how beautiful they are. -- Suzan-Lori Parks
I love being onstage. -- Stephen Colbert
When I'm onstage, I'm acting. -- Don Rickles
When I come onstage, I'm exploding. -- Dick Dale
I've always enjoyed playing live onstage. -- Juice Newton
I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage. -- Bryan Callen
I'm my own most merciless critic onstage. -- Keith Jarrett
Frontmen come alive when they come onstage. -- Noel Gallagher
Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity. -- Robin Williams
I like to do the splits onstage -- Gavin DeGraw
I always wear the same thing onstage. -- Patti Smith
I've never been onstage in my life. -- Anna Friel
I like to do the splits onstage. -- Gavin DeGraw
I only wore makeup when I went onstage. -- Little Richard
As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage. -- Mary J. Blige
When I get onstage, I automatically feel beautiful. -- Jill Scott
Being onstage is everything thats good about life. -- Joan Jett
I never write anything down. I write onstage. -- Lewis Black
If I die, I'm going to die onstage. -- Yoshiki
You never know what's going to happen next onstage. -- Don Ho
The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage. -- M. Ward
No, because I was always nervous about being onstage. -- Carly Simon
Nothing has that fire we feel when we're onstage. -- Joe Jonas
I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage. -- Scott Putesky
Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage. -- Britney Spears
You gotta have fun. Even now we have fun onstage. -- Rob Halford
I didn't have a life until I went up onstage. -- Oscar Wilde
People are used to us being onstage for a while. -- Chris Squire
Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage. -- Raul Julia
The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller. -- Alice Cooper
I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience. -- Idina Menzel
Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage. -- Bruce Dickinson
My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me. -- Zosia Mamet
I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal. -- Anna Friel
The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned. -- Bruce Dickinson
Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it. -- Pitbull
You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired. -- Faye Dunaway
I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies! -- Zoe Kravitz
I have to stay hydrated so I don't pass out onstage! -- Carrie Underwood
It's hard to talk about yourself onstage and be sincere about it. -- Mitzi Gaynor
I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live. -- Rickie Lee Jones
I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage. -- Dick Dale
I have never been a different person onstage than I am off. -- Gloria Gaynor
In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else. -- Fiona Apple
When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page. -- Guy Picciotto
Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. -- Nina Simone
Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage. -- Samantha Mathis
I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage. -- Colbie Caillat
If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes. -- Freddie Mercury
It was a choice of making it or still eating chicken onstage. -- John Lennon
I loathe the idea of going onstage in a T-shirt and jeans. -- Martin Gore
When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures. -- Bernie Mac
When I'm onstage, I'm completely comfortable, and I feel very vital and alive. -- Andrew Bird
All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform. -- David Hasselhoff
I had a very sexual experience onstage once. But I won't go there. -- Meredith Brooks
We usually surprised everyone, and still do, as we keep the craziness onstage. -- John Gallagher, Jr.
Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to. -- Paul Lynde
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good. -- Keith Richards
That's more along what the story is, as opposed to me being onstage singing. -- Toby Keith
I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing. -- Patton Oswalt
I just want to be able to get onstage and move and move around. -- Sharon Jones
I believe the best persona to be onstage is the one that comes naturally. -- Billy Sheehan
I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage. -- T. J. Miller
I love suits, but onstage it's too hot. So, I like a nice T-shirt! -- Tiesto
I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion. -- Miyavi
The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone. -- Dave Grohl
When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled. -- Alec Baldwin
When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears. -- Taylor Swift
I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it. -- Bob Gunton
I really enjoy theater. Performing live onstage is helping me to grow as an actress. -- Kim Fields
Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder. -- Neil Innes
You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage. -- Sarah Silverman
I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage. -- Patricia Heaton
I wish I could escape into some alter-ego, just so I could feel more comfortable onstage. -- Lana Del Rey
Every three or four shows, we have somebody that will come up onstage and propose marriage. -- John Tesh
I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively. -- Jared Harris
Performing is my passion. Being onstage is at once exhilarating, beguiling, and fulfilling. But it's hard. -- Monica Raymund
I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach. -- Samantha Bond

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