Stage Quotes · Page 122

It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.

— Samuel Beckett

I learned from doing live shows that I could use physicality to bandage moments that weren't working very well.

— Jamie Demetriou

I tend to be hypercritical of my performances. That's why I hate watching them with people I know.

— Jill Flint

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

— Napoleon Hill

I like the stage challenges of having somebody literally falling apart before your very eyes.

— James Lapine

I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a…

— Joe Cocker

What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their…

— Florence Welch

In the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family.

— Helen Hayes

But I also know in standup, there's nowhere to hide. You get on stage and you deliver, or you are eviscerated and…

— Rob Delaney

People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing…

— Morgan Freeman

I just can't wait to get out there on stage. There's no anxiety at all. I love being able to take this…

— Loretta Swit

I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I…

— Larry Norman

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the…

— Nina Simone

Coming back to Flint and seeing my family keeps me humble. Even though I've been on a worldwide stage, I can still…

— Claressa Shields

Sometimes on stage I prefer to feel more glamorous, so I'll go all out when it's a stage outfit like sparkly, colorful,…

— Lianne La Havas

Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place–…

— Nadine Gordimer

I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten…

— Edward Albee

The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god - that there's a man in the sky with 10 things…

— George Carlin

Canadian artists in Canada, if you're not doing something big internationally, they definitely don't give us super big respect right away. You…

— Karl Wolf

We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I'm in a difficult position in the sense that, preposterous as this might sound, I don't like being the centre of attention.…

— Alex Turner

However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct…

— Jan Struther

I am honestly very intimidated when I meet new people and they expect me to be the onscreen Vir. On stage, I…

— Vir Das

The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard…

— H. Burke Peterson

I feel like when I get on stage, I want to really open up a way to God for people as opposed…

— Israel Houghton

It's nice to have a band that can adapt to whatever show we're in, so we can play on a big stage…

— Anonymous

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

— Wiz Khalifa

Any opportunity I get to melt butter, I continue on to the 'noisette' stage.

— Sherry Yard

“Adolescence is the same tragedy being performed again and again. The only things that change are the stage props.”

— Lindsey Leavitt

I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them…

— Quentin Tarantino

I started at 34 and I didn't go full time until I was 40. When I say started, I mean the first…

— John Bishop

The Darkness at Irving. Hope to have as much fun doing anything ever as these guys have on stage.

— Sloane Crosley

I love a beautiful gown on stage, and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.

— Leona Lewis

It's a great gig, really: getting on stage, playing the guitar, singing. For a living, it's super.

— Dolores O'Riordan

I didnt develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

— Gary Wright

Only movement I've ever been involved in is when I push the piano across the stage.

— Fats Domino

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your…

— Sammy Davis, Jr

When you go into the studio or get up on the stage with people who have more experience or knowledge, you learn.

— Jake Shimabukuro

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

— Dorothy Parker

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.

— Moss Hart