Stage Quotes · Page 52

Nominally, I stated a company. Practically, it's a venture capital firm that allows me to be an investor in early stage companies.

— Sam Hinkie

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.

— Pedro Martinez

On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.

— Robin Williams

The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."

— Vaginal Davis

When Peter Schneider first approached me about adapting 'Sister Act' for the stage, it wasn't a slam dunk to say yes.

— Alan Menken

When I saw the rough cuts of 'The Village of Peace,' I was immediately intrigued and wanted to share this story on…

— Amar'e Stoudemire

I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.

— Sunidhi Chauhan

If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride,…

— Khaled Hosseini

We've had lots of breaks, especially over the last 10 years, so to still be getting together and to be able to…

— Tony Kanal

If you get up on stage and brag, I don't think that's very brave. It's braver to get up and take your…

— James Blunt

That I walk around calling people 'dummy' and 'hockey puck'. I do have a different life apart from being sarcastic on stage.…

— Don Rickles

Rock stars are like prophets. There's something about somebody who can get up on a stage and sing. And then when they…

— Pamela Anderson

The structural notions to me always have to be worked out very carefully in the script stage. Whatever a particular structure is.…

— Christopher Nolan

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope...…

— Hal Sparks

I like films better than the theater because you have to spend so much energy projecting your voice from the stage in…

— Denholm Elliott

Perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure in scientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the clear recognition…

— Roger Fry

Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this…

— Rudolf Rocker

I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and…

— Ramakrishna

I was once almost forced off the stage at a large chain bookstore that shall remain nameless, because she introduced me as…

— Daniel Handler

The stage of investing that I do is seed stage, so it's really early. Here's a pair of founders who maybe have…

— Alexis Ohanian

Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the…

— Constantin Stanislavski

All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I…

— George Lucas

You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present…

— Ramana Maharshi

I damaged my legs and ankles many years ago when doing concerts and falling off stage.

— Leo Sayer

I can't perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it'll distract from the whole persona.

— MF Doom

I never take the stage without wearing my widebrim tan hat. I actually have multiple backups.

— Jimmie Allen

Most performers are used to the highs and the lows. If you can let a low stop you, that would be a…

— Jerry Lewis

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

— G. Stanley Hall

Even though I'm still doing the singing entrances, with promos and backstages, I was being me as a performer.

— Aiden English

When I'm up on stage and do a joke, half the people interpret it one way and half of them interpret it…

— Maria Bamford

In cinema, you can see an actor but he can't see you. On stage, there's a one-to-one and an eye-to-eye connection.

— Asrani

Qualifying for the UEFA Champions League group stage was a big thing in Israel.

— Eran Zahavi

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's…

— Bruce Springsteen

I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

What most infuriates me is the cell phones. If I see someone texting during the show, I walk off the stage.

— Miriam Margolyes

I think when you evolve into a headlining act and things get bigger, the intimacy, and some of that energy gets lost…

— Gary LeVox

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

— Hugh Jackman

Pavarotti is not judged on how he sings in the shower. People wait until he gets on stage.

— Frank Rijkaard

I'd be very interested to direct myself on film. I think it would be almost impossible on the stage.

— Denis Lawson