Stage Quotes · Page 50

I just love the idea of taking an elevator down to the stage, like Elvis did.

— Dusty Hill

Once I'm on stage, there's just no time for a sip of water - I've always got my hands in puppets! My…

— Nina Conti

I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.

— Samantha Bond

Listen, I would love to win an Emmy at some stage or another. I can't pretend not to.

— Cat Deeley

I am working on music and telling my personal story and sharing my talent on stage.

— LaChanze

From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do.

— Sydney Pollack

...I loved to dance in studios, but not necessarily on stage. What I loved was to sweat and to feel every single…

— Peter Martins

Maybe some young girl seeing me on the Emmy stage may have meant something for them.

— Lena Waithe

These guys were always saying, 'The minute you get onstage, it's great, no matter how much you're hurting.' But that didn't work…

— Jim Carroll

The weird thing is I have now met quite a lot of people who are really famous but they are always disappointingly…

— Josh Widdicombe

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much; I'm not…

— Anthony Hopkins

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I was an apprentice at the San Francisco Ballet, and a casting director came to one of our rehearsals to scout talent…

— Amanda Schull

There is no better feeling in the universe, other than being married and having a family, than standing on stage behind a…

— John Tesh

I survived on sandwiches, and I was on stage every night for six years of my life. I was working 16 hours…

— Thierry Mugler

“That's how it is: even in the throes of death, man is always on stage. And even 'the plainest' of them, the…

— Milan Kundera

This isn't the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock--I built…

— John Ratzenberger Cliff on Cheers

No matter what circumstances you sisters experience, your influence can be marvelously far-reaching. I believe some of you have a tendency to…

— James E. Faust

Once you go on stage you're essentially creating the world that people want to participate in. The worst thing you can do…

— Thomas Hampson

One of the patients that really stands out for me was a middle-aged woman who actually had HIV in the early days,…

— Jill Stein

Don't forget there are two sides to performing. Finding the truth, but you also have to be transparent enough for the audience…

— John Hurt

The whole thing about writing a play is that it's all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to…

— Tom Stoppard

They had a contest where they would - for some reason, someone in the past loved musical theater, and so if you…

— Andrew Sean Greer

Today, on this day of possibility, we stand in the shadow of a lanky, raw-boned man with little formal education who once…

— Barack Obama

If I can muster up any allure in my life, at this stage, I wouldn't mind doing that.

— Mindy Kaling

It's a really strange thing to be doing, to go on stage and all of a sudden have bright lights and spotlights.

— Hope Sandoval

I'm hideously shy as myself but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

— Laurie Metcalf

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

— Charles Darwin

I'm not knocking the people who wear blue jeans on stage. For me, that wouldn't be showmanship. That's my craft.

— Porter Wagoner

Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

— Jimmy Breslin

In all my concerts, across the world, I always sing a patriotic song with a huge Indian flag appearing on the stage.

— Devi Sri Prasad

I was getting up on stage and taking a bow as soon as I could stand.

— John Carter Cash

I had to pinch myself a couple of times that I was actually on stage at the Atlantic with Carol Kane.

— Mickey Sumner

Even though I've got quite a bit of singing experience, I still get nervous when stretchin' my pipes.

— Jim Nabors

I love fire. I just think it's hypnotic and great, but I've got to tell you - on a sound stage, that…

— Robert Englund

When I go on stage, I'm a different man. I become Chubby Checker, And when I'm not Chubby Checker, I'm preparing to…

— Chubby Checker

When on stage, I have good concentration. When I don't find something interesting, I can't concentrate.

— Morfydd Clark

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

— Kenneth Williams

I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I…

— David Bowie

You're never static as a performer. You either get better or you get worse. As I see it, you have an equal…

— Julian Bream