Stage Quotes · Page 49

Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.

— Elton John

To be honest, I am scared of acting, and moreover, I want to be perfect on the musical stage first.

— Hyuna

When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

— Dave Chappelle

When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.

— Andy Kaufman

Dominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."

— Ayn Rand

I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

— George Bernard Shaw

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

— Frances E. Willard

All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.

— Constantin Stanislavski

I'm always guilt-ridden if I give a bad performance. If you're doing a theatrical run, your day has to be geared to…

— Sheila Hancock

As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in…

— John Lancaster Spalding

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film…

— Benjamin Bratt

In some ways, I was confident as a teenager - I didn't mind standing on stage in front of loads of people…

— Ruth Jones

It's like a Master Class in Acting for three hours. I go to work and I learn so much and do so…

— Sean Mahon

I meditated before I hosted the Oscars, I meditate before I go on stage, I meditate in the morning and lunchtime when…

— Hugh Jackman

Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information…

— Doris Lessing

Something happens when you feel that energy and excitement from the audience. And you do, I don't know, four pirouettes. You jump…

— Misty Copeland

Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I…

— Rajneesh

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

“A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing. I do it because I'm driven…

— Bob Dylan

The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating,…

— Stefan Zweig

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

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

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

Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all.…

— Richard Dawkins

I really think it's important for presidents to exit the stage gracefully.

— George W. Bush

How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?

— Suzanne Collins

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.

— Steven Wright

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

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

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

— Sloane Crosley

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

Only movement I've ever been involved in is when I push the piano across the stage.

— Fats Domino

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

When you go into the studio or get up on the stage with people who have more experience or knowledge, you learn.

— Jake Shimabukuro

It's a great gig, really: getting on stage, playing the guitar, singing. For a living, it's super.

— Dolores O'Riordan

I didnt develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

— Gary Wright

When I'm on stage, I do very much feel like I'm Cinderella, which is kind of how I deal with it.

— Carrie Hope Fletcher