Stage Quotes · Page 104

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

— David Gottesman

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

For a club to come and get you, they are going to use you at some stage.

— Victor Moses

I'm at best on stage. It's one of the only places where I actually can feel like a million bucks.

— Doseone

I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing…

— Yoko Ono

We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to…

— Grandmaster Flash

When I go on stage I am just, I don't make any attempts to do anything more than just what makes me…

— Teddy Pendergrass

I'm a live performer, through and through. That's when I really get to shine.

— Tiffany Darwish

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought…

— Helen Reddy

For me, acting is like a holiday. I spend a lot of time at home with my kids, and then every so…

— Helen Baxendale

Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place–…

— Nadine Gordimer

The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of…

— Tim McGraw

I don't walk on stage unless I'm playing with a orchestra. But when I play a recital, I'm sort of on a…

— Itzhak Perlman

In doing my podcast, I do find that I tend to try out bits that I then try on stage later that…

— Kurt Braunohler

Coming back to Flint and seeing my family keeps me humble. Even though I've been on a worldwide stage, I can still…

— Claressa Shields

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the…

— Nina Simone

Compassion may be called the fundamental of all good art because it alone can tell you what other beings feel and experience.…

— Michael Chekhov

Alan: "I had terrible stage fright." Sin: "I'm not familiar with the concept of 'stage fright.'" A: "It's pretty awful. You end…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

There was a time when I was in the South, singing, and someone came to me before the show and said, 'There's…

— Johnny Mathis

We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else…

— Nigel Lythgoe

In terms of the stars, the only ones I cast were Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins. I was in Los Angeles working…

— Dustin Hoffman

Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of…

— Yasser Arafat

One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night…

— Dave Barry

Performing isn't only about the acrobatics and the high notes: It's staying in the moment, connecting with the audience in an authentic…

— Idina Menzel

I've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage.

— Louise Jameson

Performing is my passion. Being onstage is at once exhilarating, beguiling, and fulfilling. But it's hard.

— Monica Raymund

The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive…

— Bonnie Raitt

So people only focus on getting the really deep sleep, but in reality, we spend almost 60% of the night in the…

— Shelby Harris

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

— Alan Tudyk

I am like a Jekyll and Hyde. The moment I step on stage, I feel a different surge of energy within.

— KK

It's important for us to all be aligned with the same energy on stage.

— Nayeon

You write some material, go up on stage and try it out; go back home and throw it in the trash can.…

— Felipe Esparza

There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.

— Isaac Goldberg

“When you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours.”

— Dr Paul Enenche

At some stage I'm going to have to say, 'Right, that's it. I'm stopping for a bit'.

— Kate Winslet

You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble.

— George Strait

Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in - luck plays…

— W. G. Grace

But I could never in a million years get up on a stage, ever. Even thinking about it makes me feel like…

— Mary McCartney

Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never…

— Holly Hunter

Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.

— Robert A. Heinlein