Stage Quotes · Page 111

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

— C. S. Lewis

More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out…

— D. B. Sweeney

When I was doing lots of live shows I was able to eat what I wanted because it was worked off easily.

— Paul Young

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in…

— Ben Kingsley

I got to the stage where I physically couldn't carry on unless I gave comedy a go: it was necessity.

— Greg Davies

On stage I try to be as spontaneous as possible, feeding off the energy of the audience. I just let myself be…

— Anupam Roy

Manchester United are a huge club on the global stage. I came here to win everything. Otherwise, I wouldn't have come here.

— Alexis Sanchez

At first, I had such stage fright, and it was always comforting to look over and see my big brother.

— Sasha Spielberg

It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage…

— D. W. Griffith

When I get to the stage, I don't get no kind of weird feeling when everybody starts screaming. It doesn't make me…

— Chamillionaire

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in…

— Barry Lopez

Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often…

— Eddie Redmayne

It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a…

— Lewis Thomas

I think good storytelling continues to teach you how it unfolds. And so I don't think that film and stage are mutually…

— Terry Kinney

I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of…

— Blanka Vlasic

When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true…

— Ostad Elahi

Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting older, you realize your relationship with the past is…

— Jeanette Winterson

The most significant visions are not cast by great orators from a stage. They are cast at the bedsides of our children.…

— Andy Stanley

Music is my catharsis for that. It's an incredible blessing that I have this way of expressing myself through music and lyric,…

— Kimbra

I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've…

— Oscar Isaac

Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the…

— Mao Zedong

The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's…

— Christopher Hitchens

Christ was a sublime actor on the stage of the world. He knew what he was thinking of when he said, "Heaven…

— Henry David Thoreau

People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."

— Adam Duritz

Being on stage makes me come to life. When all eyes are on you, they're watching every move you make.

— Joe Jonas

If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.

— Teller

I get the same feeling walking into the Opry House as I do when I see one of my heroes.

— Blake Shelton

There is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable.

— Frederick Lenz

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

— Regina Spektor

And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.

— Colbie Caillat

I'm always nervous about singing...always. It may be one of the only things I sweat about.

— Ed Robertson

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

— Vincent Cassel

Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

— Ken Wilber

When I go onstage, I kind of turn into a beast sometimes, this alter-ego, you know.

— Nicole Scherzinger

I think the stage is the place where I feel most comfortable and most myself.

— Courtney Hadwin

All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.

— William Shakespeare

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that.

— David Gill

When I compose an album, I don't think about how to adapt it on stage.

— Jean-Michel Jarre