I think some musicians can almost forget that the stage is something to do something on, even if that thing is standing still.
My philosophy is that the people around us are there doing as much work if not more work behind the scenes and they're the last people you would ever be unkind to, so I hope I'm not a diva off stage.
The stage is not for me to practice. I'm not that artist. You practice at home and when you get on stage, it's time for a conversation.
A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.
You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.
Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.
I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn't want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.
I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright.
We just do what we do, we're grateful every night when there's people in front of the stage and singing our songs back at us. We're all fortunate to be able to be doing this for a living, so we're just grateful to be here and we just do what we do and we let the people decide.
I feel like with our shows it always feels weird to be performers on stage and not engaging in audience interaction in some way - that exchange of energy is very much a part of the sound.
You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in the round and look at it from all sides.
Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.
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.
We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.
My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.
My family is as far from a stage family as you could ever possibly find.
You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?
I feel energized walking off stage.
The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.