Wilson Cruz Quotes

Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

When she started crying in my rehearsal, I felt so badly because I was like, 'I'm making Kelly Clarkson cry right now,' but it also felt really good because I thought, 'If she is feeling this, hopefully, America will feel this, too.'

The first time I performed on stage, that was almost the first concert I went to, so that was pretty interesting and a bit weird at the same time.

There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.

My first-night jitters are so bad, I can't even hold a tea cup, but once I am over that, I get really into it.

When you're on stage, you're in control. No one can get to you.

It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.

Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.

You hear some people saying, 'I'm alive on stage; it's where I feel most complete...' I don't understand that at all; I find that weird and depressing. I don't dislike the audience; it's just when I'm up there, they're in the darkness. There's just a sound of laughing or not. They're not 'people,' they're this big organism.

I'm nervous the first few songs, and then I'm like, 'I got this audience. I'm ready!'

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

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.

You're in front of an audience and thinking off the top of your head - you're going to say things that offend people sometimes. Sometimes I'll be driving home, and I'll be like, 'Oh, crap, I shouldn't have said that.'

I forgot how scary plays are. The audience is so much a part of the night - I know that a lot of it is trying to shut that out and just do your own thing.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

I liked being on stage; I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.

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.