Stage Quotes · Page 175

I know some people are like, 'I'm depressed, and I'm a struggling artist,' and that really works for some people, but that…

— Charli XCX

I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just…

— Moby

I had the best season, probably of my career, when I first arrived and then the second year I was still top…

— Scott Sinclair

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

— Ben Kingsley

I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite…

— Sarah Silverman

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

— Anton Chekhov

The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are…

— Anna Netrebko

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.…

— Tennessee Williams

All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.

— William Shakespeare

You have two choices: You can take what you're given or build with what you've got. I choose to build with what…

— Dominick Cruz

That's the most comfortable place for me. In the beginning, yes, I was nervous going on stage. I was not a natural…

— Jerry Seinfeld

My personality just steps away, and I'm in direct connection when I'm on stage.

— Diane Ladd

I have never known stage-fright at any time.

— Kate Smith

Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights,…

— Ellen Terry

I think the great thing about the Jack Ryan films is that the plot and the story always take center stage. If…

— Chris Pine

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend…

— William Gibson

I'm like an old vaudeville act. They'll have to pull me off the stage with a hook.

— Lee Corso

As somebody who didn't support [Donald] Trump but works in the LGBTQ space, it was unprecedented that Donald Trump stood on that…

— Margaret Hoover

But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its…

— Aldo Leopold

Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed,…

— Bob Dylan

Very simply, a platform is the thing you stand on to get heard. It's your stage. But unlike a stage in a…

— Michael Hyatt

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

— Augustus

I'm on stage. I'm constantly being viewed, and as sad as it is, I'm one of those guys I would rather just…

— Uriah Hall

The first time I got on stage I was 10 years old and I did impressions. I did cartoon characters and I…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I was like, 18 and it was in West Virginia because I was allowed to get into the clubs in West Virginia,…

— Alaska

I like to hire the kind of people that I would want to be on stage with.

— Joe Mantello

I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,'…

— Rachel Boston

As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated…

— Mohsin Hamid

Big matches on the big stage are often decided at the back.

— Oliver Kahn

From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do.

— Sydney Pollack

I'm not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage.

— Topher Grace

I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist

— Choi Soo-young

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

— William Shatner

The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't…

— Max Reinhardt

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never…

— Robert B. Parker

The bigger the stage, I feel like the better I play.

— Jack Sock

If you have to make a story in 10 rupees or you know that at this stage you can get only 10…

— Pankaj Kapur

When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt…

— Feist

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

— Marlon Brando

There's nothing like the spontaneity of making something work on stage.

— Frankie Grande