Stage Quotes · Page 102

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

— Lascelles Abercrombie

“In my view just when you think you have it all hanging clear enter a blue ballon off-stage left hammering”

— Wendy Mulford

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.

— Johnny Vegas

I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown.

— Mark Linkous

Jimi Hendrix was the master of live stuff. He was my inspiration to do the yo-yo, everything he did on stage was…

— Jason Becker

No matter how the day's going, when I get out there on that stage, it makes it all all right.

— Cole Swindell

I was a stage dad. When I was with Earth, Wind and Fire, I was their stage dad - the O'Jays, I…

— Mathew Knowles

I've learnt how to develop routines. To play with each bit. To enjoy expanding on it. To get used to the stage…

— Sue Perkins

I feel powerful when I'm onstage talking to an audience. I like communicating; it feels like my calling in the world. Knowing…

— Naomi Alderman

'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also…

— Rob Sheffield

It's unfortunate that people go, 'Oh, wow, man, they can get Zakk Wylde to jump up there on stage, and it's Pantera…

— Vinnie Paul

'Fight Master' is a proving ground for young, aspiring fighters who want a chance to play on a bigger stage. That's something…

— Randy Couture

I'm of the opinion that if you step on stage and you're not a straight white male, you're automatically making a political…

— W. Kamau Bell

I was born in Brazil and grew up playing futsal on the streets. It's where I picked up the skills that laid…

— Deco

Stage is the place of the playwright: you're guided by great actors and directors, but it's the playwright's word on the page…

— Abi Morgan

When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the…

— Linda Ronstadt

Very interesting show. It's "Hotel" with the E missing. Hot L Baltimore. It was about a rundown hotel which had become kind…

— Richard Masur

When I made those wild-ass comments, on stage, about then-Senator Hillary Clinton and then-senator Barack Obama, I don't know if you can…

— Ted Nugent

I read a lot. I especially read memoirs and biographies. It's very helpful when you're thinking about what's possible and what exists…

— Jeanine Tesori

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who…

— Anais Nin

I guess I'm lucky in that I started working very young in all three of the mediums. I started in stage first,…

— Carol Kane

The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was around 7, and my…

— Carrie Underwood

I'm a Gemini, so there's two people in me. Straight up. There's the nerd who is totally zoned out in the studio,…

— G-Eazy

When I'm offstage, I never feel famous. I will never let anybody call a restaurant and say, "We're with Kenny Chesney. Can…

— Kenny Chesney

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

— Alan Alda

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

— William Shakespeare

I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow.

— Steven Weber

Whenever I go onstage or in front of a camera, I always want to pour my soul out because I know I…

— Mj Rodriguez

In all my concerts, across the world, I always sing a patriotic song with a huge Indian flag appearing on the stage.

— Devi Sri Prasad

I was getting up on stage and taking a bow as soon as I could stand.

— John Carter Cash

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

— Laurie Metcalf

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

— Charles Darwin

I'm not knocking the people who wear blue jeans on stage. For me, that wouldn't be showmanship. That's my craft.

— Porter Wagoner

Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

— Jimmy Breslin

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

— Maggie Smith

I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I…

— David Bowie

You're never static as a performer. You either get better or you get worse. As I see it, you have an equal…

— Julian Bream

All Scripture is equally inspired, but not all Scripture is equally applicable or relevant to every stage of life.

— Andy Stanley

When I go on stage, I'm a different man. I become Chubby Checker, And when I'm not Chubby Checker, I'm preparing to…

— Chubby Checker

When on stage, I have good concentration. When I don't find something interesting, I can't concentrate.

— Morfydd Clark