Stage Quotes · Page 116

I think TV, films, and the stage inform each other. It's good to go back and forth.

— Jon Tenney

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

— Patti LaBelle

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

— Christian Lacroix

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

One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

— Sarah Vowell

In my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things.

— Carl De Keyzer

I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it…

— Rudolf Nureyev

I was always criticized through my whole career because I wasn't doing the whole smiling thing on stage. But I didn't feel…

— Dorian Yates

Typically, when you're with your friends, premises are coming up left and right. But when you're on stage, you must create the…

— Jon Stewart

I've always been a good mother, but I've always been in show business, and I've been on stage, and I don't bake…

— Debbie Reynolds

Performing on stage is such a buzz. I've done stupid things such as jump off a building, but I'd never experienced adrenalin…

— Tom Holland

I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type…

— Ed O'Neill

The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced…

— Teller

Basically, I started on stage yelling and I kept yelling, and then I yelled some more, and then I yelled even louder.…

— Lewis Black

I think we have arrived at the stage where we are making it too complicated. I know guys who can't play two…

— Vijay Singh

Where I teach students in drama school, there's a course called Dramatics. In this course, all students must put on a play.…

— Kim Young-ha

Even in an advanced stage of civilization, there is always a tendency to prefer those parts of literature which favor ancient prejudices,…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking…

— Colin Quinn

Women, who are the prime victims of religion, and perhaps in some, stockholm syndrome effect, often form the most fervent advocates of…

— Matthew Chapman

The first time I got a chance to meet Michael was onstage at Madison Square Garden. There were tons of people on…

— Usher

There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are…

— Arthur Miller

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those…

— Carl Sagan

Wherever you are, that’s your stage, your circle of influence. That’s your talk show, that’s where your power lies. ... You have…

— Oprah Winfrey

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

— John Maynard Keynes

“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad…

— William Shakespeare

Its just my goal to make other girls feel as strong as I feel when Im on that stage.

— Hayley Williams

I feel like my consignment and fear from people pushed me to become a performer.

— Ezra Furman

I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.

— Busy Philipps

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

— Isabelle Huppert

It is when I am on stage that I feel most comfortable. It is my home. It is the only thing I…

— Cilla Black

I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

— Carrie Fisher

SHINee world is strength for me. Because I get strength when I get cheers on the stage.

— Onew

Robben is truly world class, proving himself at the highest level in England, Spain, Germany and on the international stage.

— Jamie Carragher

For stage wear and gowns, Julien McDonald, who is a friend of mine. I love that he can be totally over the…

— Katherine Jenkins

An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have…

— Joel Kinnaman

I just go out and sing my songs. I don't put on elaborate stage shows with ridiculous fancy dress.

— Amy Macdonald

Maybe it's more stressful to be on stage because you constantly have to keep revisiting it as opposed to being like, 'Well,…

— Mike Faist

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