Stage Quotes · Page 67

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

— Phoebe Bridgers

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

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

I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in…

— Nick Offerman

When school friends would think about appearing on stage as the most frightening, the most awful, intimidating experience ever, I knew that…

— Hugh Laurie

I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that…

— Miyavi

At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone…

— Laurence Steinberg

Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and…

— Rose Tremain

The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing…

— Marcus du Sautoy

I'm not looking at any stage stuff at all. I'm going to give that a break for a while, if not forever,…

— Nigel Hawthorne

I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my…

— Luise Rainer

I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because…

— Rokia Traore

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed…

— Auguste Comte

Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now,…

— Terri E Apter

Because I am a part of the Big Picture, I do matter and substantially so. Because I am only a part, however,…

— Richard Rohr

Once you get on stage, everything is right. I feel the most beautiful, complete, fulfilled. I think that's why, in the case…

— Leontyne Price

I really look forward to revisiting this body of work which has been such a huge part of my life and bringing…

— Danny Elfman

There are 6 billion people in the world and every single one is a diamond in some stage of being polished. Life…

— Perry Marshall

If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest,…

— Luther Burbank

“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

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

There's something that happens whenever I see a brilliant show, where I just want to get up on stage.

— Adrian Lester

The opportunity to carry water every night to James Earl Jones on stage is a dream come true.

— John Larroquette

I think the best part for me is just being able to perform for people every week.

— Ruben Studdard

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

— Antony Tudor

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

— Dan Auerbach

Leaving stage with a bloody scalp, it's rock & roll, I guess, but I want some hair at the end of the tour.

— Taylor Momsen

When I left Yahoo, I was really looking for an early stage company that had some complexities and things that needed to…

— Belinda Johnson

Maybe it's a bit snobby, but it's as if you're a proper actor if you do stage.

— Tom Bateman

Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

— Iggy Pop

I'm a huge fan of Motown. When you saw them on stage, you saw sparkle... you saw attitude. They didn't have on…

— Tina Knowles

I hate losing. I always want to be on that winning stage and celebrating with my teammates.

— Justin Jefferson

I took to the Eurovision stage as an opportunity to talk to Europe about tolerance and acceptance.

— Conchita Wurst