Stage Quotes · Page 101

My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.

— Norman Lock

What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor.

— Bob Newhart

I admire anyone who can walk across a stage to the mic and not trip.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

everything is toxic. That's the point. You can't avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage.

— Jane Smiley

When I'm onstage, I feel a lot of love. But I don't like crowds and random spectators.

— Dominic Fike

I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.

— Jean Kerr

I think a lot of singers are shy people. I suppose singing on stage is not like talking; you are not as…

— Alison Goldfrapp

What I'm pretty much giving you when you see me onstage is me; it's not a fake character.

— Charlie Murphy

When I get up there, maybe I'm nervous for the first song, but then I get into it. It's a lot of…

— Kygo

You know, when you do standup there are certain requirements that you have to do like you have to go on stage…

— Larry David

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She…

— Lorraine Bracco

The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame…

— Christian Slater

The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a…

— Britt Ekland

I like to have performances where I don't get too beat up and don't take too much punishment. I'm OK doing three…

— Benson Henderson

Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey…

— Mike Gordon

In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to…

— Taylor Hawkins

Actors go, 'I just want to act.' And I say to them, 'You know, stop for a second and think about what…

— Jason Alexander

If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage…

— Howard Schultz

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet…

— L. Frank Baum

“After the merch booth has closed, I join the melee, but am nudged to the middle of the mob, and then the…

— Christina Lauren

You try to break it down to weeks at a time otherwise you sort of make yourself crazy spinning out going from…

— Justin Theroux

Even today . . . experts, usually male, tell women how to be mothers and warn them that they should not have…

— Stella Chess

I have two different sides to my personality. I decided to give my fans what they want and who they are used…

— Beyonce Knowles

Bret Michaels and Dee Snider and I know how to step on a stage and front a band, and we're not ashamed…

— Sebastian Bach

From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do.

— Sydney Pollack

...I loved to dance in studios, but not necessarily on stage. What I loved was to sweat and to feel every single…

— Peter Martins

It's a really strange thing to be doing, to go on stage and all of a sudden have bright lights and spotlights.

— Hope Sandoval

If I can muster up any allure in my life, at this stage, I wouldn't mind doing that.

— Mindy Kaling

Maybe some young girl seeing me on the Emmy stage may have meant something for them.

— Lena Waithe

Once I'm on stage, there's just no time for a sip of water - I've always got my hands in puppets! My…

— Nina Conti

I just love the idea of taking an elevator down to the stage, like Elvis did.

— Dusty Hill

I’m at the stage in life where I get a lot of pleasure out of finding a cheap stock,

— Irving Kahn

Listen, I would love to win an Emmy at some stage or another. I can't pretend not to.

— Cat Deeley

I am working on music and telling my personal story and sharing my talent on stage.

— LaChanze

I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.

— Samantha Bond

I don't just do flips onstage. Of course, not randomly in public either - more on my own with my friends doing…

— Benson Boone

Technically it was really hard to render the right way the second album on stage.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Austria was the last country in Europe to ever put the stage show of 'The Sound of Music' on.

— Nicholas Hammond

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

— Ettore Sottsass