Stage Quotes · Page 50

Whoever we love, she or he is always under the bright spotlight on our stage and anything else is just a decor…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Tennis parents and stage mothers should take note. The kid has got to want to do it, not just to please the…

— Jack Hemingway

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

— Dorothy Parker

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.

— Moss Hart

When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to…

— Cyndi Lauper

The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of…

— Abdullah Ocalan

I had no balance in my life. I was this one person onstage and this person offstage, who really didn't know much…

— Elton John

Some of the challenges and the way I throw my body around in the Premier League wouldn't work on an international stage.

— Andy Carroll

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going…

— Tina Yothers

I just try to do things on stage that I think the audience would enjoy. And I try to draw on and…

— Bo Burnham

Whenever there has been a debate on the national stage, nobody has had to go looking to find me. I've been there.…

— Charlie Kirk

Something I've always known about the screen is that if it's anything in the world, it's literal. It's so literal that there's…

— Joan Didion

This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular,…

— Itzhak Perlman

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't…

— Shelley Winters

I work just as hard and have just as much fun whether in a 50-seat house or in a 1000-seat house. It's…

— Laurie Metcalf

As lots of us ex-pros know, you are a long time retired and there comes a stage when you would give anything…

— Jonathan Agnew

The determination and enthusiasm of the Category 5 team makes it the perfect home for my music as I embark on this…

— Travis Tritt

You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to…

— Bruce Springsteen

Man is in a transition stage; he has 31 pairs of spinal nerves which keys him to the solar month, but the…

— Max Heindel

And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your act.…

— Billy Gardell

What a person feels within themselves and about themselves radiates from them. Trust me, I have worked with people - both men…

— Amanda Schull

I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive.…

— Bruce Springsteen

I'm quite a reserved person, but when it comes to being on stage, something just clicks, and I sort of run around…

— Dan Smith

I'd been a guy who's made last-second shots in regular-season games or played big down the stretch for periods of times, but…

— David Lee

There were a lot more girls at the shows early on. I'd get off stage and there would be options. Those days…

— Mark Kozelek

If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?

— Charles L. Grant

It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.

— Samuel Beckett

I learned from doing live shows that I could use physicality to bandage moments that weren't working very well.

— Jamie Demetriou

I tend to be hypercritical of my performances. That's why I hate watching them with people I know.

— Jill Flint

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

— Napoleon Hill

On stage I'm basically spiritually feeding all of these people in the audience, and making sure they're encouraged to connect with God.

— Colton Dixon

I like the stage challenges of having somebody literally falling apart before your very eyes.

— James Lapine

In the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family.

— Helen Hayes

I feel like when I get on stage, I want to really open up a way to God for people as opposed…

— Israel Houghton

It's nice to have a band that can adapt to whatever show we're in, so we can play on a big stage…

— Anonymous

I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a…

— Joe Cocker

What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their…

— Florence Welch

I'm a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly. And Ben [Carson] you're a terrible surgeon.

— Ted Cruz

Girls throw their panties on the stage, but rarely if ever do they fit.

— Emo Philips

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

— Herb Alpert