Micky Dolenz Quotes

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

Micky Dolenz The Monkees

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• I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Today
  • Drinking
  • Beer

• I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • Work
  • Character
  • Mother

• I continue to write songs that are topically related to social, political and economic issues of our time, but I also recognize that onstage, I have a lot of fun and audiences have a lot of fun, so I'm trying to package the messages in music and sounds that are fun to perform and fun to listen to.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• I know when I'm onstage, I don't think about how it looks, I just concentrate on really feeling what I hear. But I totally know I look like Gollum when I perform, so it's cool.

  

  Lorde
  • Feeling
  • Cool
  • Concentrate

• People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • People
  • Night
  • Food

• Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Women
  • Problem
  • Onstage

• You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Work
  • Together
  • Movie

• Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage...

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Audience
  • Onstage
  • Participation

• In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Bold
  • Onstage
  • Introduced

• When you get new people around you, the excitement is new because they have different take on your music. They play it in a different way, and that's always exciting to be around. It elevates everybody onstage.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Music
  • Excitement
  • Onstage

• You can be an incredible player, but when you get onstage, you've gotta be yourself, and you've gotta bring it, as we say, and that just means give 120 percent.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Player
  • Say
  • Onstage

• Nothing has that fire we feel when we're onstage.

  

  Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Feel
  • Fire
  • Onstage

• To have that mentality of wear whatever you want, be whoever you want to be, on and offstage. This is who I am.

  

  Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Want
  • Wear
  • Mentality

• When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • People
  • Phone
  • Onstage

• I don't think about my mom when I'm onstage. I just don't really think about my kids when I'm working, and when we press stop and I walk outside, they're the first things I think about.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Think
  • Press
  • Onstage

• I'm actually relaxed onstage. Totally relaxed. It's nice. I feel relaxed in the studio too. I know whether something feels right. If it doesn't, I know how to fix it. Everything has to be in place and if it is you feel good, you feel fulfilled.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Studio
  • Onstage
  • Relaxed

• In this day and age of social media, there's a lot of people out there with five-pound opinions, We kind of figured that it would be best if we just walked up onstage and showed them who the lineup was.

  

  Juan Croucier Ratt
  • People
  • Onstage
  • Showed

• Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Onstage
  • Piano Playing

• I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Think
  • Joy
  • Years

• If I could have any power in the world, it would be super-metabolism. I would love to eat anything and not gain weight! That would be a great power. I would have an intravenous Guinness with me, everywhere I went! But I wouldn't want to know what my wife is thinking. It's a difficult power, yeah.

  

  Gregory Phillip Grunberg Band from TV
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Wife

• Guns have no eyes, no friends. You never know if they'll protect your life or take it.

  

  Edna Buchanan
  • Eyes
  • Protect
  • Guns

• The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Church
  • Religion
  • Social

• I was never on the side of the teachers at school. Even though I put all the work into getting the main role in the end-of-year musical when I was 11, they didn't give it me, even though they knew I should have had it. That sort of drove me into am dram and getting the main part in another production. And I did.

  

  Michael Socha
  • School
  • Should
  • Getting

• I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

  

  Micky Dolenz The Monkees
  • Onstage
  • Offstage