Stage Quotes · Page 6

I think the stage is the place where I feel most comfortable and most myself.

— Courtney Hadwin

Cary Grant was on the back lot one time doing a movie called "North by Northwest." I would see Cary outside the…

— George Hamilton

In theatres, you're kind of disconnected. Also, it's way too big for the likes of me. Unless you're Robin Williams or someone…

— Norm MacDonald

I almost exclusively performed at Black comedy shows and Black clubs. Black comics always just gave me the opportunity: 'Hey, you want…

— Matt Rife

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more…

— Carrot Top

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

— Arthur Smith

The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of…

— Tim McGraw

When I'm onstage, I'm more in the audience in my head than I am on the stage.

— Nikki Sixx

I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger.

— Sheryl Crow

I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I…

— Tatiana Maslany

It's a performer's worst nightmare: to hurt yourself on stage and not be able to remove yourself from the stage.

— Shangela

The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create…

— August Wilson

When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presence and most…

— Jimmy Webb

Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage…

— Gene Tierney

I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

— Dolly Parton

I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy. While I'm up on stage, I can actually…

— Bill Cosby

When you are on stage you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void…

— Suzanne Farrell

I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I…

— Sefi Atta

Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I…

— Sylvie Guillem

The recovery of spiritual sight and the healing of physical blindness have much in common. Some of those whose bodily eyes were…

— Gregory Palamas

I'm not interested in putting naturalism on stage - I want passion.

— John Tiffany

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

— John Stuart Mill

Government support is not only investing in upstream areas like basic research, but also in downstream areas like applied research and early-stage…

— Mariana Mazzucato

I get so nervous, I get belly pains before I go on stage.

— Rita Ora

[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!

— Whoopi Goldberg