What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable, which I think is sort of clear.
There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.
I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.
The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'
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 a Brooklyn guy onstage, and I try to really feed my fans with the kind of material they expect from me.
When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.
I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.
The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it's not easy for me.
Sometimes I get a little drunk, sometimes I get a little out of it, sometimes I get out of tune onstage, but that's something that shouldn't be dissected.
I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.
My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.
People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.
I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.
I was in the original cast of 'Wicked', and that got a bad review in 'The New York Times,' and it's the most successful thing that's ever been put onstage.
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.
People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.
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.
