Stage Quotes · Page 91

At one stage, I hated the police with a passion, because of how they treated me, how they treated my friends.

— Jay Blades

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

— Sarah Caldwell

I say I feel more comfortable on stage and I feel more comfortable on the back of a horse than I do…

— Lainey Wilson

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.

— Fred Saberhagen

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must…

— Lillie Langtry

I think to be a supermodel you first had to be a model, and I think people are jumping and missing that…

— Kim Alexis

I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault.

— John Lithgow

Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.

— Marc Maron

I think you can refine what you do, and become more consistent. And you write better songs that have a better shape…

— Richard Thompson

On the stage you can get away with imposing the emotions on yourself, but with film it really has to come from…

— Nigel Hawthorne

When I'm on stage, the songs that we've chosen to play from the back catalog are things that still resonate with me,…

— Trent Reznor

It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on…

— Anton Chekhov

I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it…

— Colin Fletcher

One of the things we know now that we didn't know then, is that revolutions are very painful to a lot of…

— Howard Rheingold

The thing about me and school was that as much as I felt that I didn't belong, as long as I was…

— Wilson Cruz

When you have the blue screen, you've got another set of eyes, eight months down the track, designing what you should have…

— Greig Fraser

I've got three sons, and two of them would absolutely hate being on the stage and never liked appearing in their school…

— Piers Morgan

It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in…

— Anonymous

Theatrical times are different from concert times, to put it simply. Taking a figure like [Mahatma] Gandhi and setting him on a…

— Philip Glass

I get to do a lot of things I don't usually get to do with the boys. I love playing guitar and…

— Nick Carter

Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for…

— Paulo Freire

In the film world, and I know this from just talking to other people, that I'm known as a kind of dramatic,…

— Campbell Scott

There is something to the fact that when you're on stage or when you're playing someone else, you're able to transmute all…

— Emma Stone

Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I realized comedy is toughest thing to handle, although I started with theatre and did several stage plays.

— Adithya Menon

Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.

— Carl Forti

I'm really just expressing myself in every different stage of my life.

— LeToya Luckett

A joke bombing on stage doesn't bother me, especially if it's intended to bomb.

— Mick Foley

I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.

— Anonymous

I wish Wales was more represented on the British stage, and I have missed that being in London.

— Morfydd Clark

I need a sample of your blood,' said Kira. Marcus raised an eyebrow. 'I didn't know we'd reached that stage of our…

— Dan Wells

I'm an average guy. I wasn't the dude who was gonna sit at the stage and dump all my paycheck into the…

— Joe Manganiello

As much as I love being a singer-songwriter, I love throwing down on stage and letting it all out.

— Tift Merritt

I go out of my way to acknowledge the public and let them know that I'm not always on stage. Offstage, I…

— Charles Bradley

On stage I just have to be myself. In acting you have to be so many other people.

— Kumail Nanjiani

You can stand on a stage in New York City and make very strong statements, but now everyone has to be held…

— Allen Crawford

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

— Charlie Chaplin

I performed at Live Aid in front of a worldwide TV audience of 1.9 billion but I wasn't nervous - the atmosphere…

— Paul Young

On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable.

— Tom Holland

I don't want to alienate anyone because I do a lot of crazy stuff on stage.

— Sarah Sherman