Stage Quotes · Page 12

Love goes through different stages. But it endures.

— Al Pacino

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

— Ambrose Bierce

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

— Carl Sagan

We strut and fret our hour upon the stage and then are no more.

— William Shakespeare

I love living on that stage. Without that, Id die.

— Celia Cruz

I love performing. I'll never get that out of me.

— Ice Cube

On stage the spotlight is on me and I cannot afford to be shy.

— Anupam Roy

I’m really alive when I’m on stage,

— Rudolf Nureyev

Any opportunity I get to melt butter, I continue on to the 'noisette' stage.

— Sherry Yard

“Adolescence is the same tragedy being performed again and again. The only things that change are the stage props.”

— Lindsey Leavitt

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

— Wiz Khalifa

The Darkness at Irving. Hope to have as much fun doing anything ever as these guys have on stage.

— Sloane Crosley

I started at 34 and I didn't go full time until I was 40. When I say started, I mean the first…

— John Bishop

I love a beautiful gown on stage, and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.

— Leona Lewis

I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them…

— Quentin Tarantino

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your…

— Sammy Davis, Jr

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor.…

— Armand Assante

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I think we're in the take-the-money-and-run stage of the economy. So the banks may go under, but the bankers, who make the…

— Michael Hudson

When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the…

— Joseph P. Bradley

I think that this stage in my life is really, for a lot of reasons, pretty incredible. Being a solo artist and…

— Nick Jonas

There are neither winners nor losers; there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it…

— Paulo Coelho

I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in…

— Brendan Gleeson

A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen,…

— Sia Furler

I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace and played…

— Shirley MacLaine

At first, they told me it was just bile-duct cancer, but once they went in, they removed the gallbladder, the head of…

— Sharon Jones

I remember thinking as I was doing the jokes for the first time, "If I can hear that very clearly, I'm not…

— Seth Rogen

Answer my question, Dresden,' Nicodemus growled. 'What is that?' 'A precaution against getting stuck in deep snow,' I said. 'He's training to…

— Jim Butcher

[Princess Margaret] was loud, an extrovert, an exhibitionist, loved fashion, loved color, loved music, loved drama, loved the theater, wanted to be…

— Vanessa Kirby

Dancing on 'Dancing With The Stars' really broadened my fan base. I jumped off the stage backwards one week, and so many…

— Monique Coleman

I was sort of trained in drama. I went to theater school. I started on the stage. Comedy is absolutely an essential…

— Alex O'Loughlin

After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the…

— Ronald Reagan

My performances have finally caught up with my ego.

— Ato Boldon

Being on the stage, you've got to be ready for anything.

— Laura Michelle Kelly

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be on stage.

— Keiynan Lonsdale

The stage is the last bastion of segregation.

— Lynn Nottage

Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.

— Loretta Chase

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

— Christine Lahti

The first joke I ever told on stage was a golf joke.

— Colin Jost

The center of the stage is where I am.

— Martha Graham