Stage Quotes · Page 74

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

— Sarah Bernhardt

When I am on stage, I am often thinking about what I will eat after the show.

— Nish Kumar

“I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.”

— Rosie Thomas

If you lived in Sheffield and were called Sebastian, you had to learn to run fast at a very early stage.

— Sebastian Coe

The noises Russia makes on the world stage are deeply misogynist, homophobic and racist.

— Timothy Morton

I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing.

— Leighton Meester

It's about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our…

— Nikki Sixx

I started mixing my real life stories into my stand-up, and on stage it's much more powerful.

— Anh Do

I sing really well, my friends say. I don't like my voice, but I sang on stage during the Sahara awards a…

— Suresh Raina

The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's…

— Christine Lahti

'Johnny' was always a lone wolf when he got on stage. Him against the world, whereas suddenly, when I got into acting,…

— Johnny Vegas

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of…

— Nan Fairbrother

I was, like, in my mid-30s when I found out I could sing. I was doing karaoke and we were doing Bob…

— Jelly Roll

I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors.…

— Lily Tomlin

I like creating something from nothing and hearing it on the radio or on stage or from somebody driving down the street…

— Harvey Mason, Jr

The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the…

— Michael Chekhov

The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was around 7, and my…

— Carrie Underwood

I guess I'm lucky in that I started working very young in all three of the mediums. I started in stage first,…

— Carol Kane

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who…

— Anais Nin

In the very early stages of working in sports, I was sick of being referred to as "the Barbie doll" because I…

— Charissa Thompson

When I'm offstage, I never feel famous. I will never let anybody call a restaurant and say, "We're with Kenny Chesney. Can…

— Kenny Chesney

We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular.…

— Jesse Jackson

I would never discredit anyone that is working their way up on a show like "American Idol." I think they work so…

— Mandy Moore

You try to break it down to weeks at a time otherwise you sort of make yourself crazy spinning out going from…

— Justin Theroux

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters…

— William Shakespeare

If I'm off the stage after two or three years I get itchy and I have to get back onstage.

— Edward Herrmann

When I'm speaking on stage I feel my most empowered and my most vulnerable. So much could go wrong. That tension is…

— Danielle LaPorte

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in…

— Aristophanes

I think K-pop bands rock, and their success raises my spirit to perform better on stage.

— Eric Nam

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like…

— Kesha

When you go onstage, the process of getting you from the dressing room to the stage is all about ego.

— Richard Ashcroft

You get older, and you want to be a professional athlete; you want to win on the biggest stage.

— Patrick Mahomes

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

— Anton Chekhov

When I walk on stage, it's the 'healing floor.' No matter how bad I'm hurting, I get out there and do it.

— Clarence Clemons

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

— Rick James

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.

— Mary McCormack

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

— Tessanne Chin

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the…

— James Fallows

I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home.

— Joyce DeWitt

Obviously, I wore a lot of crazy things on stage. That's just how it goes.

— Tiffany Darwish