Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.
Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.
Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.
I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud of.
Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.
From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.
I was able to go on stage and work until it felt right or felt good. It meant that I very quickly realised that it was the job for me.
I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.
I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.
I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.
Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
On stage you can get away with a lot more in the sense of emotion and truthfulness. But the camera is the eye of God. It sees everything.
We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.
It's a wonderful thing to have life and to look at all this creation and say thank you. I even say it on stage.
Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.
Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.
I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.'
As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.
