Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany.
Basically, I started on stage yelling and I kept yelling, and then I yelled some more, and then I yelled even louder. I'm modulated now.
I started doing karate at four, my parents were karatekas. I stopped when I was 17 and went to Julliard and had a lot of stage combat there.
No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.
The stage of Creation is a Timeless Marche. The three measures of Nothing, Possibility, and Chaos will eternally ensure that the script continues on.
As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it.
The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages.
I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.
In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.
I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.
Right before I go on stage, I'm absolutely terrified. My mind darts at many directions, but the center of me is going forward into the performance.
I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger.
The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.
I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.
I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.
I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.
And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.
I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.
