Stage Quotes · Page 55

I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.

— Alex Turner

I want to say things on stage that I wouldn't have the guts to say in conversation.

— Romesh Ranganathan

Does it feel good to stand on my stage with 500-pound tigers and everybody envy you? Absolutely.

— Joe Exotic

I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing…

— Matt Nathanson

It's pure joy to see some people who've never had the chance to live their dream, come on stage, and let loose.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

“But you don’t have to let this define you anymore. Leave it here -” he indicated the stage “- where it can…

— Lesa Howard

“There are moments on stage when everything comes together. Then the kid in the front row coughs.”

— Connie Brockway

Often people have to wake me up from a nap to tell me to go on stage.

— Phoebe Bridgers

I don't know where the shape of a poem comes from. I certainly don't impose it. I write out of a jumble…

— Michael Longley

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states…

— Meghan O'Rourke

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz did their best Donald Trump impersonation. All three unleashing an unprecedented string of insults and attacks fit…

— Chris Hayes

A lot of people think the Breakfast for Children program is charity. But what does it do? It takes the people from…

— Fred Hampton

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage…

— Constantin Stanislavski

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

— Michael Carrick

Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a…

— Chris Abani

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

I've seen such great material, and now I'm more picky with the type of jobs that I take because it's gotta be…

— Jovan Adepo

Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with…

— Johnny Ramone

On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a…

— Henri Bergson

For Sarah Palin, the least experienced on the world stage, the stress of maintaining the fiction that she was qualified to be…

— Tina Brown

While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

It's important to learn to say no. With tours and all of that stuff, there are so many aspects that go into…

— Britney Spears

I rarely sit down to write something. I usually have an experience and relate it to somebody and go, 'There I connected…

— Greg Behrendt

In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully…

— S. I. Hayakawa

I'm a control freak, even though I can be scatterbrained off stage. The only way I can have fun is if I…

— Maren Morris

Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

— Warren Zevon

I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between…

— Fiona Apple

I have to have sound in my ears for 10 minutes prior. I come to the theater early, two hours, just to…

— Jason Butler Harner

One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

— Sarah Vowell

In my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things.

— Carl De Keyzer

I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it…

— Rudolf Nureyev

As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

— Edward Bond

I don't get recognised until I'm on stage, and then I can walk off and forget about it. It's great.

— Rick Astley

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

— Isabelle Huppert

It is when I am on stage that I feel most comfortable. It is my home. It is the only thing I…

— Cilla Black

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

— John Maynard Keynes

“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad…

— William Shakespeare

Its just my goal to make other girls feel as strong as I feel when Im on that stage.

— Hayley Williams

I feel like my consignment and fear from people pushed me to become a performer.

— Ezra Furman

I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.

— Busy Philipps