Stage Quotes · Page 94

I'm hoping to bring some raunchy, risky, soulful frankness to the stage, really.

— Ari Lennox

'True Blood' allows you to be big, so it's almost like you're on stage, and I'm comfortable with that.

— Rutina Wesley

I had trouble hanging around [Shelley Long] until we stood onstage together, and then I was in heaven.

— Ted Danson

I think if I just do what I do every day, on the extraordinary Olympic stage, I could be a podium contender.

— Gracie Gold

The best thrill is standing on stage and playing - other than being married to my wife.

— John Tesh

I've done the glamour doll, song-and-dance routine, the works. I've reached a stage in my career where I'm ready to experiment.

— Raveena Tandon

I don't know what Tracy Morgan does on stage, but I can assure you it's no act.

— Andy Kindler

Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.

— Lorrie Moore

Our audiences were always the most bizarre mix. You'd have a thousand screaming girls in the front of the stage and then…

— Eric Carmen

I don't have to perform to stay in the public eye anymore. I really don't. I am who I am and what…

— Neil Young

Truly remarkable leadership is not just about motivating others to follow, it's about inspiring them to become leaders themselves and setting the…

— Condoleezza Rice

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they…

— Julie Walters

You're on the stage and you've got all those people yelling at you, so you better be right in the moment, reacting…

— Andy Summers

Women's genetic celebrity power magnifies men's protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men's addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or…

— Warren Farrell

Our job is to be performers and give everybody a great night where they can forget about their problems and the world's…

— David Bryan

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role…

— Kiri Te Kanawa

Sometimes I feel really bad for the audience. I don't know how to make them happy. And you just feel drained cause…

— Charlyne Yi

If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying…

— Bruce Springsteen

That's one of our biggest challenges is finding out how to do that. There are times when you have to scale back.…

— Alan Powell

I had composed songs, I sang, and played the vina. Practising this music I arrived at a stage where I touched the…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God…

— Anonymous

We have jokingly said if you've got good hair, can sing and know three chords, you can lead worship at First Baptist…

— Bart Millard

I've dabbled in running around on stage, and at certain times it's nice to step away from the anchor of the piano…

— Sara Bareilles

I thank Missio, (Pontifical Mission Societies), the primary instruments for cooperation in the universal Church's universal mission in the world. Through their…

— Pope Benedict XVI

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

— William Shakespeare

Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is…

— Emma Watson

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.

— John Osborne

It's important to use a stage name so that your real name doesn't appear on public records.

— RuPaul

No, I'm not going to retire. Not going anywhere. I'm focused on the UFC. It's the biggest stage.

— Alistair Overeem

You do understand when you get into management that you will get the sack at some stage, but that never puts people…

— Neil Warnock

Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.

— Roger Kahn

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.

— Anna Pavlova

I don't know if I'd ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I've passed that…

— Anurag Kashyap

The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the…

— Shinzo Abe

There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'

— Robert Wilson

I'm always kind of trying to stay present and do the same work no matter what stage of the match I'm in.

— Iga Swiatek

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.

— Martin Freeman

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

— Novalis

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

— Kate Smith

I love performing, and connecting with an audience never gets old for me.

— Steve Miller