Best Onstage Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“There's a lot of technical issues with a musical whereas with a play it's just the five people onstage in this moment.”

“It is important to have emotion, to live through the music onstage.”

“With stand-up I could think of something now and say it onstage tonight. It's totally pure, I love it.”

“Thirty minutes onstage for me is literally a full day's work. So I make sure I eat right and I make sure I keep my energy high.”

“Here's the weird thing about me. I was never one to tell you stories about me. I was always the guy who others told stories about. I was like that up until I was 35 years old. And then I started telling stories about me 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'm pretty comfortable in a car to know what I'm doing, and I'm exactly the opposite onstage.”

“I think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was my actual personality. I was still working out what kind of person I was.”

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

“We run around onstage constantly for about an hour and 45 minutes, and we know what that can do. You just feel great at the end of the night and when you wake up in the morning.”

“My dad loves it - being onstage - but I don't.”

“When I'm onstage the joy is to try to be the best I can be, I'm there because I want it to be perfect.”

“I used to go onstage with no makeup on. And then I realised I was looking a little crazy and I had to grow up a bit and look more presentable as a woman.”

“I actually got to go back to where I was born and perform there. I just brought my mom up onstage and was like, 'Look, here we are.'”

“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.”

“People just get to see me onstage, and they don't get whole of me.”

“It's not about me. It's about what I'm doing for kids. When I walk out onstage, there's 15,000 kids that, to me, represent potential.”

“What I'm pretty much giving you when you see me onstage is me; it's not a fake character.”

“I really thrive being onstage.”

“I'd been writing sketches since high school, but 'Friends of the People' really taught me about structure - how to wait out a joke, how to stick with it for a while. It also made me more confident onstage as a performer.”

“The best thing about theatre is that every time we get onstage, the show is new.”

“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.”

“We pray before everything - videos, onstage, TV shows. I think that has a lot to do with being successful.”

“To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.”

“When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.”

“I'm always onstage, and everyone there already loves me, so I go with this certain confidence.”

“I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.”

“I don't practice or write stuff down - everything I do onstage was just made up before I went on.”

“I have a big persona onstage sometimes, but offstage, I'm super shy. Like, I don't want to perform for people - I'd rather die than sing in a room for someone.”

“I think we live in an entertainment world where performers like to flaunt how great they are. The Conchords don't do that. Even when they stumble onstage, people like it.”

“In TV and movies, you get known for a certain thing, and that's what's expected. Onstage, people are more open to whatever character you create from one play to the next.”

“We've played in places where there were more of us onstage than in the audience.”

“I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.”

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

“Most people think the character I do onstage is the way I am offstage, but I'm just a regular guy who spends time with his family and who turns on the television and watches a lot of sports.”

“I'm not saying I'll never go solo - never is a long time - but I've always been onstage with someone else. That way, you're in it together, and you can feel, together, when the songs are right.”

“People are used to us being onstage for a while.”

“I've done stand-up since I was 18 years old, and I absolutely love it, but I used to go onstage, and the audience was my peers. Now I go onstage, and I could be their mother.”

“I just always found it easier to be the same guy onstage as you are offstage.”

“When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.”

“I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.”

“I really enjoy theater. Performing live onstage is helping me to grow as an actress.”

“The first time I toured with the 'Large Band' in 1988, I got so tired. If I just stood still anywhere, I could go to sleep. I was that tired. But I had to perform. And I did, and after that tour, I was much less fretful about going out onstage.”

“A woman is like an actress: she's always onstage.”

“When I'm onstage, I'm not thinking about ideas. I'm not in my head at all. It's a more physical experience.”

“Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.”

“I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there.”

“I don't need the money after 11 years on 'Frasier,' and there aren't that many great roles onstage left for somebody my age. I'm more interested in playing those roles than I am in playing bit parts in movies.”

“If I walk out onstage and I get a warm, excited response, it makes me feel so confident and happy, and then it's so easy for me up there.”

“Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.”

“If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?”

“I get an idea about something. I just start thinking about it, and then I get onstage and I talk about it, and then I think about it some more and talk about it some more, and think about it some more and talk about it some more, until it starts to take a shape.”

“When I'm onstage, I'm acting.”

“Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.”

“When you make a record, you are more relaxed, because you know if something is not good, you can repeat it. Onstage, you start to fight perhaps with the orchestra becasue the theater is big - this is not good.”

“When I am onstage, I am lucky.”

“I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'”

“My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.”

“I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.”

“I've never been onstage in my life.”

“People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.”

“Taking pictures and stuff, I'm kind of like, shy, but you couldn't tell onstage.”

“I have to stay hydrated so I don't pass out onstage!”

“I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I'm saying, and I track it.”

“If you sing tight in the throat, and you sing onstage, and you have a big orchestra, it's finito. Your voice goes, 'Ciao.'”

“I always loved the sheer physical act of being onstage.”

“I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.”

“Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.”

“Lena Horne - when she walked onstage, she really was Erzulie.”

“There's a different feeling when you've played with musicians for 30 years. A lot of stuff doesn't even need to be said, especially onstage. We just read each other so well.”

“I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.”

“When I was seven, my mom took my twin sister and me to a play. I remember being fascinated about life onstage.”

“When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like.”

“I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.”

“The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.”

“Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.”

“Sometimes I find myself in this super-raw place onstage where I'm like, 'Maybe that's not the best thing. Maybe I need to shut down a little.'”

“I've felt emotions onstage that I never felt before; it has strengthened me as a person and as an artist.”

“It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word primarily, and on screen it's communicated through pictures. So it's always been kind of unnatural to take something that lives on the stage and turn it into moving pictures.”

“Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word - and actually wanting to see you.”

“When I'm onstage, I have to have primer. Actually, the more primer, the less makeup I have to put on.”

“Do I show up onstage late sometimes? That's something I could definitely work on. I'm human.”

“If you're onstage thinking about what you're going to eat when you get offstage, it's time to finish.”

“It took me a good eight to ten years to really formulate what I was doing onstage and start to get really personal with comedy. I always really had timing naturally, it was just about trying to figure out how that timing was going to work onstage.”

“It's definitely a high when you walk onstage and everybody starts applauding before you even say anything.”

“It's hard to talk about yourself onstage and be sincere about it.”

“I like to pace onstage.”

“Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.”

“For me, music is so passionate, I have to give it my all every time I go onstage. Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home.”

“I'm not someone who comes onstage and says, 'I'm rewriting this now.' I don't think it's fair to the writers or the director, or the other actors.”

“When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.”

“Cutoff flannel and a mullet. That's what I'm rolling with. If you see me onstage, that's what it's gonna be!”

“The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'”

“I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.”

“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.”

“I've been lucky enough to do a tiny bit of Shakespeare onstage over the years.”

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

“I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.”

“The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.”

“When I work onstage, I want to play roles that have real, deep theatricality, that aren't the sort you would easily see on television and in the movies.”