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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.

On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable.

For many years, there has been only one place where I am in touch with my emotions fearlessly, and that's the stage. Being on stage fills my soul in many ways, almost completely. It's my vice.

I've felt emotions onstage that I never felt before; it has strengthened me as a person and as an artist.

I have great emotion every time I go on stage. Nothing in life gives me the same satisfaction that my profession gives me.

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.