Stage Quotes · Page 119

I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.

— Matt Berninger

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

— Zac Efron

I'm always at my fittest when I'm doing a show - even when you're not on stage, you are running around backstage…

— Samantha Barks

I'm a Christian girl. I pray every night and before meals and before I go on stage not to fall.

— Chanel Iman

I loved 'Les Miz' and 'Into the Woods' - I used to cast 'Into the Woods' with my friends, even if they'd…

— Rory O'Malley

My life changed the day I walked across that stage. Because I finally finished something!

— Eric Thomas

If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.

— Jerry Lewis

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's…

— Billy Crystal

I like films better than the theater because you have to spend so much energy projecting your voice from the stage in…

— Denholm Elliott

If you get up on stage and brag, I don't think that's very brave. It's braver to get up and take your…

— James Blunt

That I walk around calling people 'dummy' and 'hockey puck'. I do have a different life apart from being sarcastic on stage.…

— Don Rickles

The structural notions to me always have to be worked out very carefully in the script stage. Whatever a particular structure is.…

— Christopher Nolan

Rock stars are like prophets. There's something about somebody who can get up on a stage and sing. And then when they…

— Pamela Anderson

We've had lots of breaks, especially over the last 10 years, so to still be getting together and to be able to…

— Tony Kanal

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite…

— Jane Campion

I love performing on stage the most. It's getting that instant reaction from a live audience. There are no boundaries, you can…

— Jennifer Ellison

Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that…

— Val Kilmer

It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of…

— Albert Camus

My show 'The Big House' was picked up; they flew me to New York. I'm about to step on stage to announce…

— Kevin Hart

I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a…

— Al Pacino

To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in…

— Sam Keen

Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You…

— Ken Livingstone

One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have…

— Fernando Bujones

I've played to audiences where people are sitting there with their arms crossed, just kind of watching. Although they might be having…

— Steven Wilson

I think with the live shows it's giving you that opportunity to do something on stage that you don't normally do.

— Matt Shultz

Sometimes, I stood at the front of the E train, watching the tunnel ahead, imagining what Anthem would look like on stage.

— Jeff Britting

My middle name is Marshall. A lot of people think it's a stage name, but it's not.

— Trevor St. John

It's hard to know at any stage whether a show is going to work or not. Every few years, a different trend…

— Aidan Turner

I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then.

— Michaela Conlin

My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people.

— PSY

There's a number of companies clearly that we wish we had invested in either at the early or at the moderate stage.

— Douglas Leone

You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.

— Eddie Cibrian

I just get so hype - I love performing. I love performing whether someone's there or someone isn't there.

— Trevor Jackson

I've done more than a few concerts on the same stage as Nik Kershaw, and I've done a couple with Go West.

— Paul Young

The way I look at it, people pay me to travel. Once we get to the stage, that part is easy.

— Dianne Reeves

I've played the Royal Albert Hall to 8,500 people, and there wasn't a nerve in my body.

— Sandi Toksvig

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.

— Paul Mooney

I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.

— Itzhak Perlman

Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.

— Rita Wilson

Being nervous the night before you're supposed to get your license...

— Anonymous