In international cricket you have to thrive on the big stage, you have to deal with the media and the pressure. — Alastair Cook Copy Share Image
People who grew up as child stars have the same thing in common. You're cute, they love you; you go through the… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone. — Richard Marx Copy Share Image
I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent, but I wouldn't choose to… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
There aren't many hits like 'Kinky Boots,' so when you get one, the gratitude that comes with it fuels your energy. From… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
I guess nobody can teach you the knack, or whatever it is, that helps you come to life on stage. — Christopher Lloyd Copy Share Image
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I learned what I could do with my voice on stages and because of the people that I was around. It wasn't… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You… — Blythe Danner Copy Share Image
A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style. — Buddy Hackett Copy Share Image
I tell people 'America's Got Talent' is the best summer job you could have - you get to watch people strive for… — Nick Cannon Copy Share Image
The first thing I will say about looking after your voice is get a pair of in-ear monitors because one of the… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency… — George Trumbull Ladd Copy Share Image
Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
When you're on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I've done bits where I improv a joke, and people are… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about moving from acting to writing is that your work can be in the public eye without… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I just used to back my instincts and go with the flow. Lately, I've realised that once you play at the highest… — Shreyas Iyer Copy Share Image
Just because I don't want to stand on stage with Richard Spencer or Baked Alaska doesn't make me any less conservative. — Laura Loomer Copy Share Image
Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“CURTAIN CALL The world is our stage and the final act can highlight or ruin a beautiful play” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
I studied as an actor at the theatre conservatoire in Quebec, but by the time I got to my third year, I… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Toastmasters changed my life. They really did. Put me on the stage. I don’t know what I would have done without that… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
I want as many people to see the show [Hamilton] in its musical theater form as possible before it's translated, and whether… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Everyone, everywhere, and all the time, used to laugh at me when I was growing up. So, when I was around 18,… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
People like the shows I do. I want to be real, to have fun, even when I dance on stage... it's a… — Estelle Copy Share Image
Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged. — Peter Gallagher Copy Share Image
One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
They had a contest where they would - for some reason, someone in the past loved musical theater, and so if you… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Coming back to Flint and seeing my family keeps me humble. Even though I've been on a worldwide stage, I can still… — Claressa Shields Copy Share Image