Stage Quotes · Page 103

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the…

— V. S. Naipaul

I'll keep going until I get to the point where I can't get out on stage.

— Andy Williams

So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

— Michael C. Hall

I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared.

— Shania Twain

You see some people on stage today, and they have these huge ear monitors.

— Colm Wilkinson

I just don't do anything fun anymore. But, that's dying, isn't it? I mean, you die in stages, right? You let things…

— Mel Gibson

Women's sports just needs a stage. If we have a stage we can show up and perform and show people what we're…

— Nelly Korda

Kids will use their own system at the stage that they are, they're not (learning merely by) imitating you.

— Jean Berko Gleason

If you let it, show-business can take over your life and permeates into your family. Your persona on stage becomes part of…

— Lee Evans

I want the audience, when they leave, to think of the characters on the stage in three dimensions. I want them to…

— Lynn Nottage

Years of doing comedy and doing improv comedy taught me so many things about pacing, timing, stamina, how to manage physicality -…

— Greta Lee

I normally work like a vampire. Around 8 to 9 P.M., what I call 'the spirits' actually show up, and then I…

— Ester Dean

David [Cameron] has been an outstanding friend and partner on the global stage and, based on our conversation, I'm confident that the…

— Barack Obama

We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about…

— Richard Avedon

I felt as a human being I needed to take a pause and reflect on a lot of stuff that's happened. That…

— Kenny Chesney

Planetary Citizenship reveals a vital blueprint for a compassionate and sustainable world. Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda make a formidable team stepping…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to…

— Tennessee Williams

We tend to think of our idols as kind of superheroes; maybe less so today, given that people have a tendency to…

— Ben Gibbard

In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who…

— Sam Claflin

There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life,…

— Oscar Wilde

Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a…

— August Bournonville

I actually think I left 10 to 20 pounds on the stage, because it went up pretty easily. Seven hundred has been…

— Pepe Smith

I'd love to do more TV, but I'd love to get into more feature films. I'd also love to go back to…

— Mariana Klaveno

Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot,…

— Yul Vazquez

If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.

— Robert Browning

I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

— Maria Callas

I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.

— Laurie Metcalf

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

— Janis Joplin

“Imma send you from venue to venue, from stage to stage, and from page to page. You'll just get better with age.”

— Alma Fisher

I love being kind of reserved and serious and then having these explosions of passion when it comes time to perform.

— Sasha Velour

There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!

— Douglas Wood

So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and…

— Kenny Chesney

I always like to get back to the stage when I find something I want to do.

— Van Heflin

A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.

— Neil Young

I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.

— Kevin Richardson

The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

— Zoe Saldana

I often get disoriented on stage. Half the time I don't even know where I am.

— Craig Nicholls

I feel like my rise is connected to my lyrics, my look, my dance, my character, it all feeds into the same…

— Blueface

Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

— Muhammad Iqbal

He knows what it's like to strut and fret his hour upon the stage and then be heard no more.

— William Shakespeare