Stage Quotes · Page 104

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

— Morgan Freeman

Well, the first Australian tour I literally just took busking to the stage.

— Tones and I

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

— Alan Rickman

I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.

— Susan Howe

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

— Colin Wilson

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

— Ellen Terry

I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being…

— Darcey Bussell

What made me a comedian was staying on the stage and starting to talk.

— John Bishop

Ustad Ghulam Ali has been a huge influence and has guided me constantly. In fact, it was he who suggested I change…

— Javed Ali

Before I go on stage, I knock three times. Three is my lucky number; I once went into an audition and was…

— Jessica Brown Findlay

I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't…

— Pete Sessions

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for…

— Adam Driver

Every crowd is different. But that's something that I enjoy, and you can feel it in the first few seconds when you…

— Lyle Lovett

Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my…

— Don Rickles

Every night in 'Hairspray' we will be doing a vocal warmup, so I hope that will improve the muscles. It is a…

— Les Dennis

As a young kid, I wasn't really interested at that stage - getting financial advice was far from my mind. I was…

— Robbie Fowler

Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely…

— Elbert Hubbard

I just said let's get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said,…

— Russell Simmons

When people ask me if musical theatre should be taught in music colleges, I reply that there is no need. All anyone…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different…

— Aaron Tveit

That support has been so constant and gracious and loving. Michelle and I have never felt as if, at any stage, folks…

— Barack Obama

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have…

— Stephen Lang

“We had been playing our assigned roles on the office stage, but stepping down from the stage, abandoning the images that we…

— Haruki Murakami

I'm just focused on getting to the end of each show and feeling like we've done a good job when we walk…

— Aldous Harding

So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.

— Ice T

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right…

— Theodore Bikel

We all would shudder if what we did, no matter what, in our 20s and early 30s were publicly displayed on a…

— Rick Famuyiwa

Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.

— David Copperfield

The first rule of show business is get off the stage while people still want more.

— Terence Winter

My life is the same, and I am at a beautiful stage at 88. I am as excited as I was in…

— Dev Anand

As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.

— Miley Cyrus

For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for love, but on the stage.

— John Dryden

I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.

— Ron White

I like to wear something I can move in, and light colors because of the stage lights.

— Sophie Hawley-Weld

After I saw 'Annie' on Broadway, I came out of the show crying, because I wanted to be on that stage.

— Noah Schnapp

Oh my God, I would love to go on stage so much. I'm undignified with how badly I want it.

— Ophelia Lovibond

I want people to remember ABBA as we were. I don't think that four geriatrics wheeled on stage is what we should…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

— Paloma Faith

When I was in film institute, stage plays were compulsory part of our training.

— Asrani

Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.

— Eric Clapton