When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.
The most remarkable moment is when you go out on the stage and you hear the applause of the audience!
Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.
Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.
There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'
I'm more lost when I'm not on tour. I'm in a bit of a muddle at nine o'clock - 'Where's the stage?' On tour, there are people directing and supervising you.
You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.
There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.
I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.
I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.
You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.
As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.
If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it's an incomparable experience.
I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.
What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.
I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.
There is no better feeling in the universe, other than being married and having a family, than standing on stage behind a piano and having 5,000 people waving at you. You cannot bottle that.
