Stage Quotes · Page 114

When I'm up on stage and do a joke, half the people interpret it one way and half of them interpret it…

— Maria Bamford

I never take the stage without wearing my widebrim tan hat. I actually have multiple backups.

— Jimmie Allen

I can't perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it'll distract from the whole persona.

— MF Doom

Most performers are used to the highs and the lows. If you can let a low stop you, that would be a…

— Jerry Lewis

Qualifying for the UEFA Champions League group stage was a big thing in Israel.

— Eran Zahavi

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's…

— Bruce Springsteen

In cinema, you can see an actor but he can't see you. On stage, there's a one-to-one and an eye-to-eye connection.

— Asrani

What most infuriates me is the cell phones. If I see someone texting during the show, I walk off the stage.

— Miriam Margolyes

I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it…

— Hannibal Buress

Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier…

— Kris Holden-Ried

Stage fright is not a thing about 'Am I any good?' It's about 'Am I gonna be good tonight?' It's a right-now…

— Gregg Allman

The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so…

— Gerard Butler

Every stage of filmmaking's important while you're doing it, so I spend most of my time figuring out how to tell the…

— Richard Linklater

I certainly have dreams of being on a Broadway stage someday, if they'll have me. I think I want to stay really…

— Sara Bareilles

Each game is an opportunity to be on a great stage and be a witness for Christ. When I step on the…

— Stephen Curry

I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same -…

— Nolan North

In film, the camera can get an array of shots so the audience can see the emotion the character is giving off.…

— Alice Eve

Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star…

— Henry Rollins

There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the…

— Jaron Lanier

CBGB was a wild place, ... The first time I ever played there was in 1987, I think, with my hardcore band,…

— Dave Grohl

There was only one elective at my college for acting, but thank God for that elective because we had a great teacher…

— Nestor Carbonell

Half the time, when I first run onstage, I can't look directly at the audience just because of self-consciousness. It's human nature.…

— Borns

I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.…

— Joe DiMaggio

It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

I think when you evolve into a headlining act and things get bigger, the intimacy, and some of that energy gets lost…

— Gary LeVox

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

— Hugh Jackman

Pavarotti is not judged on how he sings in the shower. People wait until he gets on stage.

— Frank Rijkaard

I'd be very interested to direct myself on film. I think it would be almost impossible on the stage.

— Denis Lawson

When I came back to power, Georgia was completely isolated on the international stage.

— Eduard Shevardnadze

Bob Dylan is great. Ive been compared to him a lot. I think when people see a person on stage with a…

— Jake Bugg

The confidence Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson exuded from stage, I'm a fan of.

— Bruno Mars

If you're only doing showbiz stuff and you're not having a real life, it's like what are you talking about during standup…

— Sarah Sherman

Full circle: 2014 I go from playing on the street to getting invited to play on stage, now 2016 I'm headlining.

— Masego

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

— Grace Jones

There is nothing better than coming off stage and being all sweaty and not partying.

— Alana Haim

Because so many people love seeing me on stage and because I can make many people happy, I become happy through them.

— Jin

When I was young, I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger for several years.

— Suzanne Collins

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.

— Joni Mitchell

I miss being able to wake up when I want and go on stage when I want and pull down my pants…

— Mark Wahlberg