Stage Quotes · Page 95

I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.

— Michael Jackson

The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage

— Valerie Solanas

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

— Aubrey Plaza

End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.

— Anonymous

Never go dead for a second on stage. Even if you are doing nothing, do it actively.

— Roger Allam

Own the stage, command the stage, and don't be afraid to be the best you can be.

— Tessanne Chin

I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more…

— Juliette Binoche

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

— Gertrude Atherton

It's always necessary to know when a stage of one's life has ended. If you stubbornly cling to it after the need…

— Paulo Coelho

All of the original Wiggles were boys, but the girls sure loved them. In a preliteral age before 3, children don't necessarily…

— Emma Watkins

I prefer the competitive atmosphere of a classroom setting, like yoga or Pilates. That keeps me going. Although performing on stage is…

— Dita Von Teese

When you've got that performing bug, there's no way that you can tear it out. It's there. When you go out on…

— Ann-Margret

I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play…

— Mick Taylor

I'm just in that stage where I pray for God to show me how I can be effective in the world and…

— India.Arie

The first time on stage is such a blur to me. I remember how it felt more than anything. I remember everything…

— Paul F. Tompkins

It is really amazing to be able to do cinematic, big feature style film music on a weekly basis and do it…

— Christopher Lennertz

I think we have reached a stage now where we need to find solutions to economic injustice in the same place and…

— Vandana Shiva

other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you know, all…

— Roseanne Barr

The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts…

— Louis Agassiz

At times, I've been so absolutely terrified of what I was about to do, whether it was public speaking or performance. Whatever…

— Annie Lennox

The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated…

— Gerald Holton

Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative…

— Maria Popova

We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare…

— Aleksey Igudesman

I think women's MMA is getting a bigger stage than women's football or tennis.

— Raquel Pennington

I'm so grateful, so grateful, playing on the biggest stage ever. I'm just very, very appreciative.

— Todd Gurley

Going on stage and transcending the audience and becoming this otherworldly thing makes you a dancer. It's not so black and white.

— Misty Copeland

Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.

— Robert Smith

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.

— David Cassidy

The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."

— Alison King

We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in…

— Hillary Clinton

People are meant to be certain places, and I think I'm meant to be on a sound stage doing situation comedy.

— Bob Newhart

We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other.

— Eckhart Tolle

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

— Patti LuPone

I actually always try to have a moment in my show where I can just lay down on stage and talk to…

— Madonna Ciccone

I have the luxury of having the choice to perform and go up on stage every night.

— Borns

“If life is a stage and you are your own agent, then don’t hesitate to play the character you wish to play.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I've never been that bothered about doing stage or television. I just love doing films. With theatre, it goes on night after…

— David Thewlis

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

My intention was always to share my experience and my gifts on the largest stage possible.

— Jonathan Majors