Stage Quotes · Page 84

Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me.

— David Prowse

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit…

— Francis Quarles

I also do a certain amount of talking through material on stage, to see what happens and allow interesting ideas to manifest.

— Ted Alexandro

I get involved in the political, but I don't bring it to the stage because that's not my style.

— Jo Koy

Film has always been hard for me, I'm basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.

— Blythe Danner

I push my own limits every day, every moment - in the studio, on the stage and beyond so it's truly a…

— Nas

You get used to it, you look forward to the adrenaline of the stage fright before you go out.

— Brian Henson

Every time I perform in front of people, no matter how well it goes, the next day, I feel humiliated.

— Judd Apatow

I don't write my standup on paper or anything; but I just organically do it on stage, have an idea, chat it…

— Jim Jefferies

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on…

— Jerome Lawrence

I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and…

— Stephen Lang

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on…

— Michael Shannon

The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole…

— James Larkin

You can improve in every stage of your career, and even in training, after training, analysing your game, you can do a…

— Divock Origi

I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened…

— Stevie Nicks

This is a very challenging time in the life of our nation. Weakened America's place in the world after the leadership of…

— Mike Pence

Tobin," Mom said disapprovingly. She wasn't a particularly funny person. It suited her professionally - I mean, you don't want your cancer…

— John Green

Life is eternal; death only punctuates it for a short while. After a little break life starts again. Death is ultimate truth;…

— Mahesh Babu

When you tell a story, there are imperatives of structure, of style, of pacing and all of this, that are there simply…

— H. W. Brands

There was this wonderful trick of going to the theater with my parents and sitting in the audience under the watchful eye…

— Tyne Daly

“would hope that they would know that I’m not the same person in real life that I am on stage. It’s a…

— Mara Altman

Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it…

— Adam Carolla

Stage fright and acting blocks are just unfocused or misplaced energy. Everything is possible if you know how and where to focus…

— Marjo-Riikka Makela

I think who I am as a person on and off the stage is always kind of the same thing, but I…

— Matt Skiba

“How exactly did Rue end up on stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?”

— Suzanne Collins

I got to a stage where tennis was the only thing in my life, and I didn't like that.

— Luke Mitchell

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

— Charles Darwin

Celtic is still like a family to me. It is still a home. They gave me the platform on a big stage…

— Victor Wanyama

I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development.

— Manning Marable

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

— William Ellery Channing

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

— PJ Harvey

The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.

— Al Pacino

All eyes on me while I'm on stage, Let's take over the world like pinky and the brain.

— Kid Ink

Through my attempt to get pregnant through IVF, we sadly found out that I have early stages of breast cancer. It's been…

— Giuliana Rancic

“You see, Evey, all the world's a stage. And everything else... ... is vaudeville.”

— Alan Moore

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

— Henry David Thoreau

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

— Paramahansa Yogananda

You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

— Ian Mckellen

The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on…

— Alan King