Stage Quotes · Page 98

Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who…

— Steven Wright

My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.

— P. L. Travers

The live aspect is so thrilling, I get nervous again. It's like going on stage.

— Allison Janney

I will be working on the collection until the day before the show! It's an endless process, that's all that I can…

— Sonia Rykiel

Maybe I'm just a psycho, and the stage is a better place to go than either the loony bin or somewhere else.

— Henry Rollins

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

— Sharon Jones

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

— Toni Servillo

Someday, I'll be too old to run around the stage - though that won't hopefully happen for a long while yet.

— Ronnie James Dio

Being on stage is magic. There's nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody who's out there. You feel it all…

— Michael Jackson

The Spirit is testifying that a new day is dawning. The stage of the world is being set for a fullness of…

— Mark Chironna

Sometimes, I have to really monitor myself, but the only monitoring job I really do on myself on stage is, Is this…

— Alex Ebert

I love the stage - the fact that you only have one take to get it right, the interaction with the audience,…

— Jaime Camil

Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place…

— Chris Cornell

I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing…

— Al Jourgensen

I like to warm them up with stand-up, get them into my world and tone, and then bring other characters on. There's…

— Noel Fielding

When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of…

— Sherman Alexie

I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because…

— Rokia Traore

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed…

— Auguste Comte

I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest…

— Justus von Liebig

And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

"Transcending the ego" thus actually means to transcend but include the ego in a deeper and higher embrace, first in the soul…

— Ken Wilber

I like to go on stage with a variety, with some stuff that's been around for a handful of years, some stuff…

— Brian Regan

When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because…

— P.D. Ouspensky

I think on stage there's a side of me that comes out that's very fierce and confident.

— Tessanne Chin

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club; that's…

— Jermain Defoe

I started playing small roles, but it's the stage that I enjoy the most, as that's where I can entertain people.

— Kubra Sait

I hate canceling anything, I'm 'the show must go on' mentality. If you can crawl, you can take the stage.

— Suzi Quatro

I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.

— Abbey Lincoln

Ninety percent of my material is made on stage, but I feel like you're missing something by abandoning sitting down to write…

— Tom Segura

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't…

— Ingrid Bergman

I hate being on camera. Being on stage is totally fine, but when it comes to music videos, I'm always like, 'Are…

— Alana Haim

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

— Janis Joplin

I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm…

— Anthony Hopkins

When I'm performing, this is what everything builds up to, and everything has allowed me to be here.

— Girl Talk

I went through that stage of the Mumford & Sons and the Alanis Morissette vibe. I was in a dark place at…

— Bebe Rexha

I want to be in a space where, if I appear on the stage or the screen, the audience should not know…

— Pratik Gandhi

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing…

— Roger Bart

The thrill of standing on the stage and hearing the crowd, it's the greatest feeling in the world. It's a blessed feeling.

— Dennis Edwards

I do like horror films, but I wouldn't ever be interested in putting a horror on stage - blood doesn't equal horror.

— John Tiffany