Stage Quotes · Page 109

Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more…

— Josh Radnor

I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.

— Dennis Wilson

A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.

— Otto Weininger

All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

— Kenneth Clark

I think the best part for me is just being able to perform for people every week.

— Ruben Studdard

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

— Dan Auerbach

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

— Antony Tudor

Leaving stage with a bloody scalp, it's rock & roll, I guess, but I want some hair at the end of the tour.

— Taylor Momsen

In an outdoor environment, you need to be more energetic. The attention of the crowd begins to wander - not like an…

— Chris de Burgh

I feel the bigger the stage, the pressure starts to get to others and they crumble. I feel like this is where…

— Cody Garbrandt

When I walked up on stage at the Emmys, and when people stood up, it was a really sort of emotional, overwhelming…

— Sterling K. Brown

With little fanfare, Jared Kushner is quietly tackling Washington's slow, outdated modus operandi while simultaneously engaging in high-level diplomacy that promotes America's…

— Kayleigh McEnany

I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as…

— Taylor Lautner

A lot of ideas get re-used and made part of new songs if the first version didn't cut the mustard, and the…

— Bent Saether

I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their…

— Twyla Tharp

I think that kind of urgency is what makes this stage of the climate movement really different from what it was even…

— Avi Lewis

I've grown up watching and admiring Norm. Sherie actually starred in the first off-Broadway show I ever saw in New York, which…

— Tituss Burgess

There is a remarkable nimbleness of style, a balancing act of tone, in Voltaire, which is hard to bring off on stage.…

— Mark Ravenhill

The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached…

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

“We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to…

— Murray Kempton

There's a difference between just gaining access to a commodity as opposed to a spirit that allows us to live a life…

— Cornel West

People stood on their chairs, cheering and waving. And it was all for me! Waves of love flooded the stage and washed…

— Bette Davis

The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular…

— Jean Baudrillard

President Obama's biggest advocates believe that Americans are ready to embrace his vision for the United States: a less muscular America on…

— Ben Shapiro

There's something that happens whenever I see a brilliant show, where I just want to get up on stage.

— Adrian Lester

The opportunity to carry water every night to James Earl Jones on stage is a dream come true.

— John Larroquette

I want to say things on stage that I wouldn't have the guts to say in conversation.

— Romesh Ranganathan

I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.

— Alex Turner

It's pure joy to see some people who've never had the chance to live their dream, come on stage, and let loose.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

“But you don’t have to let this define you anymore. Leave it here -” he indicated the stage “- where it can…

— Lesa Howard

“There are moments on stage when everything comes together. Then the kid in the front row coughs.”

— Connie Brockway

Does it feel good to stand on my stage with 500-pound tigers and everybody envy you? Absolutely.

— Joe Exotic

I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing…

— Matt Nathanson

I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between…

— Fiona Apple

I have to have sound in my ears for 10 minutes prior. I come to the theater early, two hours, just to…

— Jason Butler Harner

Often people have to wake me up from a nap to tell me to go on stage.

— Phoebe Bridgers

I'm a control freak, even though I can be scatterbrained off stage. The only way I can have fun is if I…

— Maren Morris

Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

— Warren Zevon

As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

— Edward Bond

I don't get recognised until I'm on stage, and then I can walk off and forget about it. It's great.

— Rick Astley