Stage Quotes · Page 287

People may say I'm difficult but I'm not. I'm a bit shy but it's funny how I can sing in front of…

— Ben Howard

I know that some people who move into film lose their nerve for the stage.

— Mark Rylance

You know, we’re not on stage, we’re not doing a play, so we don’t have a relationship with the audience but going…

— Virginia Madsen

If you respect the audience and on stage you put on a disguise, that is part of the show.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a…

— Al Pacino

The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned…

— Eric Hoffer

I do try to stay involved in training and keep that routine as much as I can. I just feel I need…

— Michael Carrick

So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the…

— Rene Descartes

I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the…

— Russell Peters

I don't know if I'd ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I've passed that…

— Anurag Kashyap

Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is…

— Walt Whitman

My mentor, [Ingmar] Bergman, when we worked on stage, he said you can't convince a thousand people at the big stage where…

— Peter Stormare

I don't feel those limits when I'm on stage. For some reason, audiences let me get away with things. Remember, it's all…

— Louis C. K

If I'm doing a play, 30 to 40 percent of the people that come to the stage door have pictures of 'Alien'…

— John Hurt

The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

— Zoe Saldana

But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always…

— Feist

I think that if you know people who are performers on stage and actresses or whatever it may be, the bottom line…

— Su-chin Pak

There is a role for growth and experiencing the world, and pushing the boundaries of that, and then there is a time…

— Karan Bajaj

At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of…

— Thomas Hughes

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

— Morgan Freeman

'Johnny' was always a lone wolf when he got on stage. Him against the world, whereas suddenly, when I got into acting,…

— Johnny Vegas

I had a couple albums out that sold well for who I was at the time and the type of music I…

— Harry Connick, Jr

I never really had stage nerves but I did have had trouble getting up to the right energy level. For a long…

— Gordon Lightfoot

There's a band called Pantera that I listen to, and then Metallica's 'And Justice for All.' If you listen to a little…

— Christina Grimmie

I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between…

— Ian Mckellen