Stage Quotes · Page 108

I have been dancing for a really long time, but when I get on stage, I forget all about that!

— Kim Zolciak-Biermann

Now that I get a chance on the big stage, it's even more important to remember where I came from.

— Patty Mills

I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I'm saying, and I track it.

— Kevin Hart

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.

— Lady Gaga

For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.

— Marina Abramovic

I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.

— John Lydon

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

— John Larroquette

I think that in each stage of your career, you need certain things to improve your game and to develop your style…

— Arjen Robben

It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds,…

— Christina Applegate

We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds…

— James Q. Wilson

The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The table was her stage. The mobile phone was the microphone. And the new moon was the spotlight. That kind of magic…

— Ai Yazawa

If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm…

— Don DeLillo

We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on…

— Robin Williams

There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... I use…

— Dabney Coleman

In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted…

— Ralph Nader

Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone…

— Lukas Foss

We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep…

— Daphne du Maurier

Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela,…

— Ray Wylie Hubbard

All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds…

— Idina Menzel

... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused…

— Rahul Dravid

I chose not to go home and struggle with the New York scene. My size sort of locked me out. I was…

— Julie Warner

Being on stage is, like, my favorite. The immediate gratification. That's my favorite.

— Tiffany Haddish

Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and…

— Mark Kozelek

Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.

— Sophie Thompson

To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.

— James Blunt

I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.

— Imelda Staunton

I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage…

— Andrew Dice Clay

I got to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, which is just so amazing. That stage is iconic; it was awesome being…

— Darci Lynne Farmer

I learned a lot about my audience and about myself as a performer, what I like to do live.

— Miranda Lambert

Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged.

— Peter Gallagher

You have to, as an individual, know how to tune that stage of your life that's in the past out.

— Deontay Wilder

For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy…

— Jeremy Piven

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

— Fiona Apple

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast…

— Herman Wouk

Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.

— Bill Hicks

I feel naked when I'm by myself on stage. I feel as honest as I can.

— Johnette Napolitano

My main focus now is playing the guitar. I'm not really like, dancing on stage anymore.

— Cody Simpson