Stage Quotes · Page 118

How well a team executes its plans is important, but I think keeping nerves under pressure is far more important in the…

— Inzamam-ul-Haq

It's a performer's worst nightmare: to hurt yourself on stage and not be able to remove yourself from the stage.

— Shangela

I'm going through a beautiful stage in my life. I've learned about love, about life, about everything.

— Luis Fonsi

Just because you see me singing up on a stage doesn't mean I don't have real life behind it.

— Bea Miller

I'm so used to it, I think I'd feel very naked on stage without a piano.

— Tom Odell

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19,…

— Jenny McCarthy

To do a year and a half on stage at the London Palladium was a buzz that's hard to beat.

— Phillip Schofield

When you talk about the exchange of energy between performer and audience and audience and performer, I hope that I'm one of…

— Raheem DeVaughn

I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if…

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes…

— Yael Stone

I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on…

— Billie Burke

It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't…

— Eric Clapton

I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine…

— Matthew Sweet

The Golden Rule reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development. This conviction…

— Pope Francis

It's dangerous to get calm. You need some nerves to work from, it's good energy. It's not good to have no nerves.…

— Bob Odenkirk

No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for…

— W. S. Gilbert

I went to high school right outside Dallas, and (songwriter and performer) Michael Martin Murphey was a senior there when I was…

— Ray Wylie Hubbard

I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a…

— Suzan-Lori Parks

Many times people can access that being stage more fully and more easily if at first you are actually doing something. If…

— Shakti Gawain

My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also…

— Madhuri Dixit

The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup…

— Hunter S. Thompson

There is often no material difference between the enjoyment of the highest ranks and those of the rudest stages of society. If…

— Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym…

— David Bowie

Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more…

— David McCullough

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

— Tori Spelling

Being short, I believe people looked and stared at me my whole life before I ever got on stage and rapped.

— Bushwick Bill

I did a brief stint with set design and stage design. And I tried playwriting, too.

— Damaris Phillips

I got heckled off stage in Western Australia at a music festival once.

— Ronny Chieng

I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.

— Ben Heppner

If you lived in Sheffield and were called Sebastian, you had to learn to run fast at a very early stage.

— Sebastian Coe

When I am on stage, I am often thinking about what I will eat after the show.

— Nish Kumar

“I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.”

— Rosie Thomas

I'd rather go on stage and talk or do public speaking than sing. Singing is very scary. It's very exposing.

— Lapsley

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

— Sarah Bernhardt

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

— Jimmy Buffett

I get frustrated by the fact that comics go on stage with some kind of agenda beyond comedy - I'm not sure…

— Andrew Lawrence

Depending on what stage I'm at in my career, I either work or don't work because I've been offered one thing.

— Peter Sarsgaard

I love creating moments that feel bigger than just like an artist on stage.

— Mat Kearney

I think if a 30-year-old Bill Cosby sat on stage with a 72-year-old Bill Cosby, they would enjoy each other.

— Bill Cosby

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

— William Hurt