Stage Quotes · Page 73

What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.

— Richard Bach

I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.

— Alexandra Roach

We've allowed our military to decay, and we project weakness on the international stage.

— Rick Scott

On stage, I'm really, really tall. I'm five-foot-9, but on stage, I'm, like, six-foot-5.

— Carlos Mencia

Obviously, I wore a lot of crazy things on stage. That's just how it goes.

— Tiffany Darwish

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

— Sigmund Freud

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the…

— James Fallows

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

— Tessanne Chin

People run on and off the stage, but usually they're removed before they get to me. It's not really frightening. There's always…

— George Michael

When I was ten, I saw 'Grease' on stage and thought: 'I want to be part of that; it looks like so…

— Michelle Ryan

The hardest part for me during the creation stage is actually putting words on paper that make sense and tell my story…

— Linda Conrad

That's the thing: when I'm on stage, I don't care; there could be ten people there, there could be ten million people…

— Alissa White-Gluz

I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my…

— Luise Rainer

The feeling before you go on stage... It's complicated. Sometimes I feel like I can't breath. I can hear my fans cheering…

— Miley Cyrus

Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and…

— Rose Tremain

At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone…

— Laurence Steinberg

That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found…

— Victor Borge

In the past our glorious visions of the future - heaven, paradise, nirvana - were thought to happen after death. The newer…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

My name is not really a common one, but people always tend to mix it up, which is quite embarrassing! As there…

— Rithvik Dhanjani

I know some people are like "I'm depressed and I'm a struggling artist" and that really works for some people, but that…

— Charli XCX

I like the adrenaline of live performance, whatever that is, appearing in front of an audience of any kind, whether it's one…

— Jared Harris

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

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

— Edward Albee

I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home.

— Joyce DeWitt

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.

— Mary McCormack

When I walk on stage, it's the 'healing floor.' No matter how bad I'm hurting, I get out there and do it.

— Clarence Clemons

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

— Anton Chekhov

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

— Rick James

I think K-pop bands rock, and their success raises my spirit to perform better on stage.

— Eric Nam

You get older, and you want to be a professional athlete; you want to win on the biggest stage.

— Patrick Mahomes

When you go onstage, the process of getting you from the dressing room to the stage is all about ego.

— Richard Ashcroft

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like…

— Kesha

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in…

— Aristophanes

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters…

— William Shakespeare

If I'm off the stage after two or three years I get itchy and I have to get back onstage.

— Edward Herrmann

When I'm speaking on stage I feel my most empowered and my most vulnerable. So much could go wrong. That tension is…

— Danielle LaPorte

I started mixing my real life stories into my stand-up, and on stage it's much more powerful.

— Anh Do

It's about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our…

— Nikki Sixx

I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing.

— Leighton Meester